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The Future in the Present

How Science Fiction Informs Our Sense of Adventure...or Lack Thereof

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Justin S. Bailey
Aug 11, 2023
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“Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.”
-E. M. Forster

I’ve recently come to love science fiction because it allows us to think deeply about the future we’re creating in the present. English author E.M. Forster is perhaps most famous for writing A Passage to India. Few are aware he wrote a powerful prediction of…

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