Making decisions on the basis of technology that hasn’t happened yet
Posted in ideas, science, science fiction, technology on 2007-09-16 | No Comments »
Nick Szabo over at Unenumerated proposes a means to differentiate science fiction from imminent technology. In essence: require that if the exact form of the technology can’t be defined, then at least the experiments needed to resolve its unknowns can be defined. (For example, SENS meets this criterion.)
Personally I’d say this is a start, but [...]
