About
The meta-crisis is so vast: climate change, exponential technology, addiction, polarization and more. How do we grasp it, let alone take steps to address it? One of the thinking tools we have at our disposal is science fiction. To the extent that we co-evolve with our stories, science fiction can prepare us for the impending future -- and empower us to shape it. On this episode on Your Undivided Attention, a podcast from the TED Audio Collective, we're thrilled to have one of the greatest living science-fiction writers: Kim Stanley Robinson. His most recent novel is "The Ministry for the Future," a sweeping epic that reaches into the very near future and imagines what it would take to unite humanity and avoid a mass extinction. Whether or not you've read the book, this episode has insights for you. And if this episode makes you want to read the book, our conversation won't spoil it. Listen to more podcasts from TED at youtube.com/tedaudiocollective.
The talk
Credits and licence
- Institution
- TED
- Department
- Your Undivided Attention
- Speaker
- Your Undivided Attention
- Year
- 2022
- Level
- For everyone
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Earth and environment, Literature and writing
- Source
- TED
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
- Attribution
- TED Talks are licensed by TED under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International and are shown here in TED's own player, as TED's usage policy asks.
- Who can watch
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