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February 20, 2005
Ring my Bel (Geddes)
Bruce Sterling on design and sci-fi:
Design’s bad habits are bad for designers, but they’re absolutely great for science fiction writers. I’ll give you a cogent example. Let’s say you’re an industrial designer trying to get a bunch of skeptical industrialists in some corporate boardroom to pony up 20 million dollars so they can retool the factory and build something you’ve just invented with a pencil and graph paper. This is basically a “suspension of disbelief” operation. It has distinct literary, fictionalizing qualities.
Posted by Andrew at February 20, 2005 11:44 AM