A historian says all of sci-fi shares the same major flaw -- except one legendary novel

It's science fiction's job to entertain us, not sooth-say. Yet even the most satirical sci-fi works have predicted numerous technological transformations we now take for granted.

A historian says all of sci-fi shares the same major flaw -- except one legendary novel 51aaa4197192f54fe7ab51dafd53c4da

A historian says all of sci-fi shares the same major flaw -- except one legendary novel 51aaa4197192f54fe7ab51dafd53c4da

If there's one book or movie that best foretells what humanity could become, it's Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel, "Brave New World," according to Michael Bess, a historian and author at Vanderbilt University.

Addressing an audience at Purdue University's annual "Dawn or Doom" conference, Bess pointed out how sci-fi movies like "Star Wars" and "Star Trek" show off radically evolved technologies -- yet humans "stay fundamentally the same."

"This is what I call The Jetsons fallacy," Bess said, referring to the way the 1960s cartoon placed people that look like humans today into a dramatically different technological world -- without imagining how that technology could alter the people themselves.

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A historian says all of sci-fi shares the same major flaw -- except one legendary novel

A historian says all of sci-fi shares the same major flaw -- except one legendary novel

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