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The Feedback Loop between Tech Innovation and Science Fiction with Chen Qiufan

The Good Robot

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The Power of Science Fiction

I think science fiction as a storytelling have this kind of mobility to to open up a little bit of headspace for the people especially those who younger generation. So they might came across huge creative kind of a synergy like emergence from from nowhere there will be some new science like totally growers away. I also wanted to ask you about which kinds of manipulations of time are seen to be okay in science fiction and which are not because we know that it's really acceptable for science fiction to have time machines like TARDIS and Doctor Who but then the kinds of manipulation of time based on non-western prophecies and oracles these are less acceptable ways of ascertaining the future.

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