How Is Media Technology Changing Science Fiction?

We bed that science fable is a form of media that switch the future – it ’s influenced everyone from scientists to economic expert . But are new medium technology changing SF ? TheSmall World podcastexplores some answer .

This week I was favorable enough to join scifi writersCory DoctorowandJC Hutchins , along with scifi podcaster Steve Eley , to talk about the future of medium – and especially scifi media . Our host was Small World podcaster Bazooka Joe , who asked some not bad questions . Not only did Doctorow get to delineate his idealistic ebook reader , but I got to talk about the future of on-line media . It was a bloody good time .

Here ’s how Bazooka Joe described the show :

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We populate in a globe that increasingly resembles the science fiction stories of our early days .

For representative , nearly all of us have mobile speech sound that are very much like the communicator that appeared in the Star Trek television series in the later 60s . . . But if we are live in a world that seems straight out of a skill fiction novel , then how is our current applied science changing science fiction ?

We ’ll explore that question on today ’s Small World .

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We ’ll talk with Cory Doctorow of Boing Boing fame and source of his recent book , Makers , about eReaders and digital rights management . We ’ll also talk with Annalee Newitz , the editor - in - chief of the io9 , a blog focuses on science fable and futurism , about how we ’ll get our medium tomorrow . J.C. Hutchins , the writer and podcaster of seventh Son , will talk about the changing purpose of publishing firm and content creators . Steve Eley , the founder of the Escape Pod science fable shortsighted taradiddle podcast , will talk about the potential dying of science fable magazines .

Take a listenhere !

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