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526. Steven Novella, co-author of The Skeptics' Guide to the Future: What Yesterday's Science and Science Fiction Tell Us About the World of Tomorrow

Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast

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We Can't Predict the Future

We can't look back historically and say that anything, any of the current things that we have now are inevitable. We could be using zeppelins instead of ships for cargo transport or flying on rocketsd et cetera. But these were quirky choices that were made, sometimes by individual people, sometimes just because of contingency,. Because the intra structure wasn't quite there yet. There's nothing inevitable about our present, and therefore there’s nothing inevitable about the future.

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