Big Technology

Why Tech Companies Need Science Fiction Writers on Staff

A little dystopian thinking can go a long way

Alex Kantrowitz
OneZero
Published in
4 min readAug 27, 2020

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One night last spring, my apartment’s buzzer went off. Meg Elison, an award-winning science fiction writer, was waiting downstairs. She’d agreed to come by for a strange experiment.

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Alex Kantrowitz
OneZero

Veteran journalist covering Big Tech and society. Subscribe to my newsletter here: https://bigtechnology.com.