WHEN it comes to technological revolution, we ain’t seen nothing yet. In , , editor of the science-fiction magazine , goes beyond this truism and attempts to anticipate the revolutions of the future by studying those of the past.
The key, says Schmidt, is to look at how disparate technologies have converged in unexpected ways. This may seem self-evident, but generations of science-fiction writers have nevertheless missed it. Their stories invariably examine the societal effects of a single technological change, such as the ability to travel in time.
Schmidt does an excellent job of highlighting how all…
