{"id":23396,"date":"2016-06-04T19:08:21","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T19:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/One-of-the-reasons-I-think-SF-is-valuable-is-that-its-a-way-to-think-through-scenarios-before-we-encounter-them"},"modified":"2016-06-04T19:08:21","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T19:08:21","slug":"one-of-the-reasons-i-think-sf-is-valuable-is-that-its-a-way-to-think-through-scenarios-before-we-encounter-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2016\/06\/04\/one-of-the-reasons-i-think-sf-is-valuable-is-that-its-a-way-to-think-through-scenarios-before-we-encounter-them\/","title":{"rendered":"One of the reasons I think SF is valuable is that it&#8217;s a way to think through scenarios before we encounter them."},"content":{"rendered":"        \n<p>One of the reasons I think SF is valuable is that it&#8217;s a way to think through scenarios before we encounter them. A story is obviously not just for that, not even primarily for that, but reading SF can develop the habit of thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Originally shared by David Brin<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My weekend post is about &#8220;Sci Fi Warnings and Optimism!&#8221; I review some hot new SF movies and books. And I describe tentative White House interest in seeing a fan group advisory board! One where SF readers can be asked about any surprising event or scenario and come up with a rapid response: &#8220;Hey, I know some stories about exactly that!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/davidbrin.blogspot.com\/2016\/06\/sci-fi-warnings-and-optimism-calling.html\">http:\/\/davidbrin.blogspot.com\/2016\/06\/sci-fi-warnings-and-optimism-calling.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        One of the reasons I think SF is valuable is that it&#8217;s a way to think through scenarios before we encounter them.<br \/>\n       <a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2016\/06\/04\/one-of-the-reasons-i-think-sf-is-valuable-is-that-its-a-way-to-think-through-scenarios-before-we-encounter-them\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[93],"tags":[94],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23396"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}