{"id":11452,"date":"2017-11-11T12:43:16","date_gmt":"2017-11-11T17:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=11452"},"modified":"2017-11-11T12:43:16","modified_gmt":"2017-11-11T17:43:16","slug":"science-fiction-is-good-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/science-fiction-is-good-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Science fiction is good for you"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are a couple of different perspectives on this topic. First, Rebecca J. Rosen on The Atlantic<\/strong> reports on research that suggests that reading SF can give inventors new ideas — and also anticipate the consequences of new technologies. A quotation from Dan Novy: “Fiction allows you to live more lives in the space-time of one lifetime than you would normally be able to.”<\/p>\n

Why Today’s Inventors Need to Read More Science Fiction<\/a><\/p>\n

One thing that the article mentions is that there is still a stigma against SF in some quarters, which is mind boggling.<\/p>\n

Next we have JR Thorpe on Bustle<\/strong> who suggests that reading\/watching SF makes you more ethical. He points out that SF is often ahead of the curve pointing out the problems with inventions, discussing important topics in a way that gets by censors, and getting us used to the idea of aliens (i.e., if we’re OK with extraterrestrials we’ll probably be OK with humans who look a bit different from us).<\/p>\n

6 Ways Reading And Watching Science Fiction Makes You A More Ethical Person<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here are a couple of different perspectives on this topic. First, Rebecca J. Rosen on The Atlantic reports on research that suggests that reading SF can give inventors new ideas — and also anticipate the consequences of new technologies. A quotation from Dan Novy: “Fiction allows you to live more lives in the space-time of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[7,6,8,11],"class_list":["post-11452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-web","tag-book","tag-movie","tag-science-fiction","tag-tv-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11452"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11455,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11452\/revisions\/11455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}