Your Undivided Attention

By Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin, The Center for Humane Technology

How Science Fiction Can Shape Our Reality — with Kim Stanley Robinson

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Published February 10, 2022 3:00am

The meta-crisis is so vast: climate change, exponential technology, addiction, polarization, and more. How do we grasp it, let alone take steps to address it? 

One of the thinking tools we have at our disposal is science fiction. To the extent that we co-evolve with our stories, science fiction can prepare us for the impending future — and empower us to shape it.

This week on Your Undivided Attention, we're thrilled to have one of the greatest living science-fiction writers — Kim Stanley Robinson. His most recent novel is The Ministry for the Future, a sweeping epic that...

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