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Q&A How do I avoid tech/social errors in near-future fiction?

The web has lots of research trade e-zines, with articles written by and for laymen, that would help you. Then there are magazines like Popular Science and Popular Mechanics. Also magazines like ...

posted 11y ago by dmm‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#2: Initial revision by user avatar dmm‭ · 2019-12-08T03:12:14Z (almost 5 years ago)
The web has lots of research trade e-zines, with articles written by and for laymen, that would help you. Then there are magazines like Popular Science and Popular Mechanics. Also magazines like Scientific American, Science News, Science Daily, and Wired Science. Omni magazine is coming back, supposedly. Also, go to a book store, find books by Alvin Toffler, and closely-related books.

It's not hard to predict (in general terms) the future of technology 10 or even 20 years out, if you're paying attention. Things often take 10~20 years to go from lab bench to store shelf. Where it gets hard is 30~40 years out, because some of the discoveries have not yet been made.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2013-11-21T06:23:34Z (almost 11 years ago)
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