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Cory Doctorow discusses the impact of science fiction on high-tech investment bubbles in his latest column.

This week on my podcast, I read my latest Locus Magazine column, “The Age of Vapor,” about the role science fiction imaginaires plays in fueling high-tech investment bubbles. It’s one thing to make everything about imaginary technology when you’re writing SF. The point of those imaginative exercises is to illumi­nate: To provoke reflection on our... more

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Host: Cory Doctorow

Topics covered

• science fiction
• technology
• investment bubbles
• imagination
• reflection

Keywords

• science fiction
• technology
• investment
• Locus Magazine
• Cory Doctorow

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Organizations: Locus Magazine

Books & works: The Age of Vapor

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