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Autonomous World Development, Earth, Futurecrafting -

In the fall of 2019, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) launched a course called Sci Fab – Science Fiction-Inspired Envisioneering & Futurecrafting. Through reading science fiction, students in the course were encouraged to imagine and propose world-building projects and initiatives. Envisioneering involves critiquing science fiction and extrapolating from it a future containing design elements of a universe not yet here. Futurecrafting involves analyzing science fiction and finding examples of compelling technologies that could become real. The topical coverage of this course included the future of matter, energy, medicine, food, cities, brains, emerging nations, sex/gender, commerce, politics, transport, aging, entertainment, design, religion, and more....

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