{"text":"Instead we should harness the aesthetic powers of science fiction. Science fiction is uniquely capable of provoking imagination for radically better futures. By radically better, I mean far more than progress on a few technologies and social problems. Instead I like the idea of books that sketch out humanity 5,000 years from now, after we’ve made major advances in energy, materials science, space, and in civilizing humanity. I’m advocating to treat science fiction as a political project, to spur a better vision of the future as well as the hard work to make it reality.","title":"2019 Letter","author":"Dan Wang","highlighted_at":"2023-03-14T05:12:14.275829Z","url":"https://read.readwise.io/read/01gvcjjdfqx4hhrmdm1k46e07z"}