Jason Pontin, Editor in Chief and Publisher
Mark Ostow

Communications

Video: On Science Fiction

How it influences the imagination of technologists.

  • Monday, March 12, 2007
  • By Jason Pontin
Editor in chief Jason Pontin never outgrew science fiction: he learned to enjoy other, more literary writing and to disguise his sci-fi fandom, but science fiction continues to influence him. To this day, his tastes and choices as an editor and journalist are science fictional: he looks for technologies that are in themselves ingenious and that have the potential to change our established ways of doing things. To hear more about why Technology Review has begun to publish fiction, watch this video.

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  • 1798 Days Ago
  • 03/13/2007

Good idea.

As long as the science stays pretty hard, as it does in the first story, this doesn't seem out of keeping with Tech Review. (Not that I'm against soft science in general, just someplace that's primarily real-tech-oriented.)

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