David Brin warned us. In 1989.

Global warming. Cyberwarfare. The World Wide Web, named in a novel before most people had ever heard of it.

I recorded this conversation with him 14 years ago. Astrophysicist. Hugo and Nebula winner. The mind behind the Uplift novels and Existence.

We dug into the most powerful form of science fiction. Not the prophecy that comes true. The prophecy that prevents itself. Orwell’s 1984 is the classic case. The warning so loud the future course-corrects.

We also went straight at #transparency. His book asks a question that hits harder now than it did then: will technology force us to choose between #privacy and freedom? Fourteen years on, with AI watching everything, that question is no longer hypothetical.

And then there is the line from David that I have never been able to shake.

“What’s important isn’t me. And it isn’t you. It’s us.”

I will let you decide whether that is comfort or a challenge.

Full interview in the comments. #Futurism #ScienceFiction #DavidBrin.

(https://www.singularityweblog.com/david-brin-on-singularity-1-on-1/)

Award winning, best selling author David Brin talks about science fiction, the singularity, Star Wars and Existence. Check out his interview for SingularityWeblog.com