{"id":6605,"date":"2004-08-17T21:59:23","date_gmt":"2004-08-18T02:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2004\/08\/17\/dearth-of-science-in-science-fiction\/"},"modified":"2004-08-17T21:59:23","modified_gmt":"2004-08-18T02:59:23","slug":"dearth-of-science-in-science-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2004\/08\/dearth-of-science-in-science-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Dearth of science in Science Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post\">Here is an interesting article in Popular Science asking &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/popsci\/science\/article\/0,12543,676265,00.html\">Is Science Fiction About to go blind?<\/a>&quot;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articles\">Wandering through the exhibition room at a science- fiction convention in Boston a few months ago, I saw plenty of reprints of golden-age SF classics for sale. But I also encountered paintings of half-naked people battling dragons, vendors hawking crystals and a folk musician warming up for a recital. Where is the science in science fiction? I wondered. Whatever happened to envisioning the future? Anthropologist Judith Berman, who recently surveyed a crop of science fiction published in 1999, has a grim answer: Many modern stories are nostalgic, wary of new technologies rather than enthusiastic about them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">They also mentioned a soon-to-be-published novel called Accelerando where a group of people have their brains uploaded into a spaceship the size of a tin can.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Accelerando is the story of three generations of a dysfunctional family living through the Singularity. What makes the novel unusual is not the size of the ship or the strange cocktails or even the sexual metaphors&#8212;a coital act culminates with the transfer of &#8220;source code&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">Being the Catholic nerd that I am &#8211; I wondered if in that case would a firewall be a contraceptive act?  Would emptying the recycle bin after this act be abortive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an interesting article in Popular Science asking &quot;Is Science Fiction About to go blind?&quot; Wandering through the exhibition room at a science- fiction convention in Boston a few&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}