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    Science

    Jun 05, 2023 3 minutes

    TOMORROW’S WORLD

    Science fiction gives us a deeper understanding of humankind’s future

    This past March, the Ministry of Defence in the UK announced they had hired science-fiction writers PW Singer and August Cole to write eight short stories about how developing technologies could shape warfare over the next 20 years.

    Surprising? Hardly. This is far from the first time governments have reached out to the world of fiction for help imagining the future. Most famously, authors Larry Niven

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