![]() ![]() “Science Fiction offers a way to talk about things, issues that are relevant to us, metaphorically,” says writer Ted Chiang. This is perhaps why science fiction has a unique ability to help us think differently-to literally take us to another world. Even a scientific theory is fictional until proven. We tell stories so that other people can imagine an experience we want to share. ![]() But unlike industrial labor, knowledge work, for all of its data, is much harder to measure, and stories are a proven method for trying on alternate realities that we may or may not want to manifest. Why do we tell stories? And why in a world with such an overabundance of information is there even room for fiction? Access to information has made our jobs increasingly data-driven and would appear to put a premium on being factual. ![]()
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