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Twelve Tomorrows: How Science Fiction Uses Today’s Technology to Envision the Future

Presented by The MIT Press and MIT Museum at MIT Museum, Cambridge MA

Dec 02 2023
Twelve Tomorrows: How Science Fiction Uses Today’s Technology to Envision the Future

There are five author photos -- James PAtrick Kelly is bearded and sits casually with his arm on the back of a chair, Syzanne Palmer has a beautiful necklace and smiles in a garden, William Alexander has a beard and looks relaxed in an open collar white shirt; Elizabeth Bear wears glasses and looks out from behind a brick wall; and Ken Liu is photographed in front of a colorful bookcase.

Hugo Award-winning authors on the value and utility of using science fiction and cutting-edge research to imagine the future and interrogate the present.

Since 2011, the MIT Press’s Twelve Tomorrows series of anthologies has brought together the day’s leading science fiction authors and tasked them with exploring the role and potential impact of developing technologies in the near, and not-so-near, future.

How will technology impact the future of our emotional connections with one another? Can an imagined pandemic prepare us for the next real one? What does human flourishment look like in the Anthropocene? The stories of Twelve Tomorrows ... view more »

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Event is free with museum admission.

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MIT Museum

265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139

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Face Masks Required: No
Social Distancing: No
Limited Capacity: Yes
Reservations Required: No
Proof of Vaccination Required: No

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