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
