Ronn Blankenship wrote: > > At 05:45 AM 1/22/02, Alberto Monteiro wrote: > >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. > > Politicians can read?
Its hard to remember which documents to shred otherwise.. -j- -- Te audire no possum. Musa sapientum fixa est in aure.
