🖖 a word from a great writer

He wrote this decades ago, but it still holds true today:

It is change,

continuing change,

inevitable change,

that is the dominant factor in society today.

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is,

but the world as it will be...

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable,

and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable,

solutions are not.

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction,

its essence...

has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

-Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov passed away in 1992, but he was a prolific writer, and left us about 500 stories that helped shape the genre.

Some were turned into movies and series.

Perhaps you’ve seen them.

I, Robot. (Twentieth Century Fox)

Foundation. (Apple TV)

Bicentennial Man. (Colombia Pictures)

He makes us realise that our choices an actions don’t happen in a vacuum. They effect the here-and-now and the future.

I like the part where he says solutions are not inevitable.

That’s what I want to do. Provide a solution.

More than one even.

And that’s why I write.