{"id":59648,"date":"2017-06-04T09:02:33","date_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/x-prize-assembled-a-supergroup-of-sci-fi-authors-to-develop-its-next-competitions"},"modified":"2017-06-06T16:00:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T23:00:59","slug":"x-prize-assembled-a-supergroup-of-sci-fi-authors-to-develop-its-next-competitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/x-prize-assembled-a-supergroup-of-sci-fi-authors-to-develop-its-next-competitions","title":{"rendered":"X Prize assembled a supergroup of sci-fi authors to develop its next competitions"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The X Prize Foundation has launched a number of competitions over the years that includes everything from addressing water quality and women\u2019s safety<\/a> to exploring the depths of the ocean<\/a>, to sending rovers to the moon<\/a>. Now, it\u2019s assembled a supergroup<\/a> of some of the world\u2019s best-known science fiction authors to help the organization imagine what the future will look like.<\/p>\n

The Science Fiction Advisory Council is made up of 64 advisors<\/a>, which includes some of the biggest names from the world of science fiction literature, film, and television: Charlie Jane Anders, Paolo Bacigalupi, Cory Doctorow, Neil Gaiman, David Goyer, Nancy Kress, Annalee Newitz, Larry Niven, Bruce Sterling, J. Michael Straczynski, Charles Stross, Andy Weir, and many others. Eric Desatnik, X Prize\u2019s senior public relations director, told The Verge<\/em> in an e-mail that he brought the idea of the advisory council to the foundation\u2019s founder, Peter Diamandis last year, who \u201csaid yes before I could even finish my sentence.\u201d<\/p>\n

The goal, he explains, \u201cis to accelerate positive change in the world by bringing together\u201d people who have already been doing just that. He noted that several of the foundation\u2019s projects, were inspired directly by science fiction stories, including this the tricorder-style device<\/a> that was awarded a $2.6 million prize.<\/p>\n

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The X Prize Foundation has launched a number of competitions over the years that includes everything from addressing water quality and women\u2019s safety to exploring the depths of the ocean, to sending rovers to the moon. Now, it\u2019s assembled a supergroup of some of the world\u2019s best-known science fiction authors to help the organization imagine [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2020,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-peter-diamandis","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70235,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59648\/revisions\/70235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}