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Stephen Wolfram's challenge to science fiction

What happens to science fiction if and when the science itself...changes?

Damien Walter
Nov 05, 2021
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The great project of science fiction has been the translation of science and its discoveries into our shared understanding as human beings. But what happens to science fiction if and when the science itself...changes? We're in the midst of a paradigm shift in the understanding of physics driven by computation. And at the cutting edge of this new kind of…

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