You can now watch my short talk at the 2023 RSA Fellows Festival.
In Pursuit of Consensual Futures touches on using applied science fiction to widen the pool of perspectives in the debate about what we do and don’t want from our science and technology. The phrase, “Inspiration through imagination is vital,” seems to have hit a chord.
I’ve added it to my channel which is a curated list of my talks, presentations and panels.
I hope you enjoy it and get something out of it.
“Long Live the Strawberries of Finsbury Park” is in the Best of British Science Fiction 2022 from NewCon Press
Now available on my Youtube channel – the closing “Futures Imaginaries” talk at the Goethe-Institut Indonesien’s Digital Discourses Science/Fiction conference, looking at how future-shaping technologies are changing the way we live, work, and eat.
I talk a bit about the interactive role of stories, and in particular speculative fiction, with future(s), describe a project with King’s College London and a project with Cybersalon, read a short story designed to raise ethical issues with AI predicting future mental health, and then answer audience questions.
Influencing and predicting the future using speculative fiction: