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.
Will artificial intelligence take over the world? What will stand in its way? This is an incredibly popular subject among science fiction writers. Find at least one science fiction story that involves sophisticated and ‘conscious’ A.I. interacting with human beings, and share the insights it has on the subject.
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- Educator Roey Tzezana
- Script Editor Amy Adkins
- Director Jeremiah Dickey
- Animator Josephine Mark
- Narrator Addison Anderson
