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from The Conversation
– this post authored by Will Slocombe, University of Liverpool
In the 1940s, science fiction author Olaf Stapledon gave a talk to a school about the future. Addressing his audience as “you citizens of the future”, he proposed three visions for this future: the “destruction of the human race“, a “worldwide police state“, and “an entirely new kind of human world“.