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Nasty
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Nov 07, 2020

All the things that made us basically nasty, rapacious, competitive as a species are not necessarily hard-coded into whatever passes for the DNA of artificial intelligence.

Always
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Nov 07, 2020

Science fiction has always used metaphors and disguises, talking about alien civilizations or the future.

Nov 07, 2020

A lot of people forget that the origin of science fiction in the U.S. was in the post-First World War period when there was a real interest to get people into technical careers.

Just
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Nov 07, 2020

Sci-fi is just as much about social science as technology.

Nov 07, 2020

When we have machines that are as intelligent - and then twice as intelligent - as we are, there is no reason why that relationship cannot be synergistic rather than antagonistic.

Nov 07, 2020

Science fiction is about things that plausibly might happen. Grounding my work in the real world helps make that clear.

Nov 07, 2020

Science fiction has always been a means for political comment. H.G. Wells' 'The War of the Worlds' wasn't about a Martian invasion - it was a critique of British colonialism, and... 'The Time Machine' is really an indictment of the British class system.

Health
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Nov 07, 2020

We absolutely do some of the best science in the world in Canada, across a broad spectrum of disciplines: quantum computing in Waterloo, paleontology in Alberta, neuroscience at the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health in Vancouver, and many more.

Looking
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Nov 07, 2020

Science fiction is about extrapolation, looking back through history, spotting a trend, and predicting where it will go.

Science
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Nov 07, 2020

One of the standard story-generating engines for science fiction is to take something we normally think of as metaphoric and treat it as if it were literal.

Physics
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Nov 07, 2020

The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics is the world's greatest pure physics thinktank, and it's located here in Canada, in Waterloo, Ont.

Nature
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Nov 07, 2020

If you like 'The Nature of Things,' or if you like 'Quirks and Quarks' you'll certainly like Lee Smolin's writing, and 'Time Reborn' is his latest nonfiction book, and it's an absolutely compelling read. It's worth the time.

Nov 07, 2020

I'm a fiction writer, and fiction is telling the lives of unreal people. But the only way you can learn to do that well is by really understanding the lives of real people.

Like
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Nov 07, 2020

One gets a bit picky after having the success of something like 'FlashForward!'

People
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm a very skeptical guy: my willing suspension of disbelief doesn't go very far when I'm reading other people's SF, and it goes even less far when I'm writing my own.

Peace
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Nov 07, 2020

I've long said that if Canada has a role on the world stage, it's principally as a role model, a demonstration that people of all types can get together and live in peace and harmony, which is something we really do most of the time here.

Book
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Nov 07, 2020

I frankly couldn't imagine being a series mystery-fiction writer, churning out book after book about the same viewpoint character.

People
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Nov 07, 2020

Fiction is all about vicarious experiences and getting into other people's heads in a way that no other art form lets you.

Short
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Nov 07, 2020

A short story is one idea; a novel is a whole soup of them.

Nov 07, 2020

A short story is the shortest distance between two points; a novel is the scenic route.

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