How Science Fiction Can Save Us All

Science fiction continues to lead us into the future.

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By Eve Taft

I firmly believe that humans need science fiction. I think it inspires us, in a both a broad and narrow sense — Star Trek led not only to kids who dreamed of being astronauts but also, quite simply, to tablets like Geordi LaForge’s. Scifi forces us to imagine what could be…