Search
Science fiction as a guide for the future
- Presented by Paul Barclay from ABC Radio National
- Sep 19, 2017
- 1 min read
Science Fiction as a tool to plan and prepare for the future. Australia’s Chief Scientist Alan Finkel says that every great human advance is preceded by a leap in imagination. There are plenty of examples: the image scanner, laptops, tablets and the internet have all been envisaged in science fiction, often decades before the technology was developed. Sci-Fi enables us to test possibilities and likely responses to them.
Presented as part of the 2017 Cranlana Programme Alumni Speaker Series. 6 September 2017
Click here to find out more or hear the podcast
Guest
Dr Alan Finkel - Australia's Chief Scientist
