January 16, 2004
The Increasingly Blurry Lines Between Social Reality and Science Fiction
Can sci-fi writers and cultural theorists illuminate the landscape of technological change? In Connected, or, What It Means to Live in the Network Society (University of Minnesota Press), Steven Shaviro, a professor of film studies and English at the University of Washington at Seattle, argues that today's emerging "network society" is an uncertain terrain that no one can evade.
Surveillance technology, genomics, robotics, and other developments, he suggests, are beginning to make
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