The man with the future inside him

• Autores: Simon Ings
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3100, 2016, págs. 48-50
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • There's more to futurology than guesswork, of course, and not all predictions are facile. Writing in the 1950s, Ray Bradbury predicted earbud headphones and elevator muzak, and foresaw the creeping eeriness of today's media-saturated shopping mall culture. But even Bradhury's guesses--almost everyone's guesses, in fact--tended to exaggerate the contemporary moment. From the 1950s, science fiction writer Stanislaw Lem began firing out startlingly prescient explorations of the present and far beyond. Here, Ings discusses why Lem's vision is proving unparalleled.