Can We Imagine Our Way to a Better Future? – D.C.
- In-Person
- Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building
900 Jefferson Drive SW
Washington, D.C. 20560 - 5PM 鈥 8PM EDT
This year, 麻豆果冻传媒 celebrates 20 years of creating and incubating the next big ideas that address some of the nation's and the world鈥檚 toughest problems. We are thinkers, researchers, problem-solvers, and storytellers, united by our goal to hold our nation to its highest ideals. We recognize the challenges presented by rapid technological and social change, and work to ensure that the solutions made possible by those changes lead to greater opportunity for all. As we reach forward toward the next 20 years of 麻豆果冻传媒, we will strive to be an engine of American renewal, at home and abroad.
The future isn鈥檛 a fixed path along which we are helplessly propelled. We make the future together through choices small and large, minute and momentous, and stories are often the best way to explore how those choices affect people鈥檚 lives. Stories are certainly the best way for people to gain understanding of scientific and technological breakthroughs and trends, as well as to consider their impact on society.
That is why Future Tense covers how technology is portrayed in popular culture, and it鈥檚 also why we publish fiction alongside our ideas journalism. Indeed, we are proud to announce the publication this month of , our anthology featuring 14 speculative stories from such accomplished authors as Paolo Bacigalupi, Emily St. John Mandel, Annalee Newitz, Carmen Maria Machado, and others.
Please join us at the Smithsonian鈥檚 imposing Arts + Industries Building for a conversation on the power of imagination and fiction to inform our future. We will have two of our writers and two of Washington鈥檚 leading voices on science and tech policy consider the power of storytelling, followed by a reception to celebrate the publication of Future Tense Fiction.
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Copies of Future Tense Fiction: Stories of Tomorrow will be available for purchase.
Moderator:
Torie Bosch,
Editor, Future Tense
Speakers:
France C贸rdova
Director, National Science Foundation
Ellen Stofan,
Director, National Air and Space Museum
Former Chief Scientist, NASA
Michael Crow,
President, Arizona State University
Co-author of Designing the 麻豆果冻传媒n University
Ari Lubet
Literary Manager and Producer, 3 Arts Entertainment
Lee Konstantinou,
Author of 鈥溾
Associate professor of English Literature, University of Maryland, College Park
This is a partnered event with the Smithsonian Institution. The Arts + Industries Building, America's first National Museum, is being reenergized as the Smithsonian鈥檚 home for future thinking through experimental programs and exhibitions in advance of its eventual reopening.