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DESCRIPTION:Since 2011\, the MIT Press’s Twelve Tomorrows series of antholo
 gies has brought together the day’s leading science fiction authors and tas
 ked them with exploring the role and potential impact of developing technol
 ogies in the near\, and not-so-near\, future.\n\n \n\nHow will technology i
 mpact the future of our emotional connections with one another? Can an imag
 ined pandemic prepare us for the next real one? What does human flourishmen
 t look like in the Anthropocene? The stories of Twelve Tomorrows remind us 
 that we can choose our future and show us how we might build it.\n\n \n\nJo
 in a panel of Hugo Award-winning authors as they discuss the value and util
 ity of using science fiction and cutting-edge research to imagine the futur
 e and interrogate the present.\n\nSigned copies of Communications Breakdown
  will be available for sale following the program.\n\nFree with Museum admi
 ssion. Pre-registration not required or available.\nSeating is limited so e
 arly arrival is suggested.
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LOCATION:MIT Museum\, The Exchange
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SUMMARY:Twelve Tomorrows: How Science Fiction uses Today's Technology to En
 vision the Future
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URL:https://calendar.mit.edu/event/twelve_tomorrows_how_science_fiction_use
 s_todays_technology_to_envision_the_future
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