Doug wrote:
>
>> Why? We are too much scientifically-oriented, so that 
>> all those "future technologies" seem much more like fantasy.
> 
> So why do we read SF that uses the same future technologies?  
>
Because - as someone else mentioned here - we are interested
in the *impact* of those technologies into the societies, in
a way to predict what similiar technologies may cause to
our society.

For example, cloning has been a SF issue for as long as
DNA was discovered [what is the *first* book that described
a clone of a non-fetal human being?], so we are all familiar
with the moral dilemmas of cloning - while our politicians,
who read romances, aren�t.

Alberto Monteiro

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