How science fiction can help predict the future - Roey Tzezana
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Would you like to know what’s in our future? What’s going to happen to humanity tomorrow, next year, or even a millennium from now? Well, you’re not alone. Everyone from governments to military to industry leaders do as well, and they all employ people - called ‘futurists’ - who attempt to forecast the future. Roey Tzezana explains some of the ways that futurists venture to do so.
Let’s say that you want to understand the consequences of global warming. How will you approach the subject, assuming you want to understand the consequences one year from now, or fifty years into the future?
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- Educator Roey Tzezana
- Script Editor Amy Adkins
- Director Jeremiah Dickey
- Animator Josephine Mark
- Narrator Addison Anderson
