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Neal Stephenson’s Fight against Dystopia - Is today’s scifi stuck in dark visions of a foreboding future? One great name in scifi thinks so, and he’s doing something about it. Slate has an article on Neal Stephenson’s Hieroglyph project:

“Stephenson’s greatest hope is that young engineers and scientists will absorb ideas from the stories and think, ‘If I start working on this right now, by the time I retire it might exist.’” We are in desperate need of this sort of long view in contemporary culture, where we can barely see beyond the next Apple press conference or election cycle.