How Science Fiction can Accelerate Innovation forYour Company

How Science Fiction can Accelerate Innovation forYour Company

How Science Fiction Can Help Chart Your Company's Path Forward

When reality flips upside-down, SF can accelerate innovation

By Roger Spitz and Lidia Zuin , Founder, Techistential/Futurology researcher

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At the beginning of the quarantine, Prof. PhD. Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay from the University of Oslo published a video on Facebook in which he argued that science fiction fans are rarely surprised by anything, since they have already seen/experienced this scenario as a fictional narrative. It is true that science fiction, horror, and fantasy explore scenarios like the end of the world, alien invasions, and machine uprisings. But despite all the movies, games, and books about pandemics, were we really ready for Covid-19?

The answer is both yes and no. While we have already seen such developments in fiction, watching a movie about an apocalypse certainly