Episode
Hard Sci-Fi Worldbuilding, Robotics, Society, & Purpose with Gary Bengier
COMPLEXITY · Feb 11, 2022 · 54 min
As a careful study of the world, science is reflective and reactive — it constrains our flights of fancy, anchors us in hard-won fact. By contrast, science fiction is a speculative world-building exercise that guides imagination and foresight by marrying the known with the unknown. The field is vast; some sci-fi writers pay less tribute to the line between the possible and the impossible.…