Nike and Boeing Are Paying Sci-Fi Writers to Predict Their Futures
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Nike and Boeing Are Paying Sci-Fi Writers to Predict Their Futures
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Re: Nike and Boeing Are Paying Sci-Fi Writers to Predict Their Futures
#2Perhaps shoes that don't explode and planes that don't nose dive?
Re: Nike and Boeing Are Paying Sci-Fi Writers to Predict Their Futures
#3Perhaps shoes that don't explode and planes that don't nose dive?
Exactly. May be have good documentation, engineering practices and don't oversell a new model claiming "works exactly like the earlier model"?
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#4how much they pay for real future predictor and not just scifi writers?
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#5In the novel Footfall by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, the government employs science fiction writers to help them understand the invading aliens and predict what they'll think and do.
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#7“capitalism incarnates hyperstitional dynamics at an unprecedented and unsurpassable level of intensity, turning mundane economic ‘speculation’ into an effective world-historical force”
"Hyperstition is a positive feedback circuit including culture as a component. It can be defined as the experimental (techno-)science of self-fulfilling prophecies. Superstitions are merely false beliefs, but hyperstitions – by their very existence as ideas – function causally to bring about their own reality. Capitalist economics is extremely sensitive to hyperstition, where confidence acts as an effective tonic, and inversely. The (fictional) idea of Cyberspace contributed to the influx of investment that rapidly converted it into a technosocial reality"
http://merliquify.com/blog/articles/hyperstition-an-introduc...
Re: Nike and Boeing Are Paying Sci-Fi Writers to Predict Their Futures
#8I wonder how solicited sci-fi stacks up to unsolicited sci-fi, like:
"The Revolution, Brought to You by Nike" by Andrea Phillips: https://firesidefiction.com/the-revolution-brought-to-you-by...
Re: Nike and Boeing Are Paying Sci-Fi Writers to Predict Their Futures
#9In the novel Footfall by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, the government employs science fiction writers to help them understand the invading aliens and predict what they'll think and do.
My first thought was this book. But the book treated this idea almost tongue in cheek. (the writers in the book were treated like royalty) And as a teen I thought this was a good idea, but as an adult I feel this is a marketing gimmick. :P