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Hand-lettered sketchnote on a dark starry background titled "The Sci-Fi Feedback Loop" with "#Applied SciFi". Lists Applied Sci-Fi ASU, Sloan Foundation, and speakers Kevin Bankston, Michael G. Bennett, Tim Chang, Cory Doctorow, Malka Older, Sherryl Vint. Topics: Prediction, Utopia/Dystopia, Longtermism, Stevenson's outsized influence.

The Sci-Fi Feedback Loop Sketchnote Panel

A sketchnote of a sci-fi panel on how stories shape tech, from Snow Crash to Star Wars and WarGames. Perfect for Xennials who grew up on cyberpunk and 80s sci-fi.

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Hand-lettered sketchnote on a dark starry background titled "The Sci-Fi Feedback Loop" with "#Applied SciFi". Lists Applied Sci-Fi ASU, Sloan Foundation, and speakers Kevin Bankston, Michael G. Bennett, Tim Chang, Cory Doctorow, Malka Older, Sherryl Vint. Topics: Prediction, Utopia/Dystopia, Longtermism, Stevenson's outsized influence.

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A four-circle Venn diagram in pink, blue, yellow and green. Outer circles: Nineteen Eighty-Four, Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World, A Handmaid's Tale. Overlaps: Animal Farm, Soylent Green, Logan's Run, Brazil, Clockwork Orange, Lord of the Flies, Gattaca, The Matrix. Center: You Are Here. Scan of a magazine page headed "Essay by Kurt Vonnegut" with the title "On Writing Science Fiction" and a black label reading "Sept. 5, 1965". The essay runs in three columns of small print. In the middle is a stylized illustration of a scowling mustached man with spiky black hair against a red shape. Credit reads "Illustration by Christoph Niemann". A screenshot of interview text, an exchange between an interviewer (O) and Pratchett (P). O asks why he writes fantasy, calling it a ghettoized genre. Pratchett answers that fantasy is the ur-literature, from Gilgamesh to Beowulf, ends by saying "That was a bloody good answer, though I say it myself." Comic panel on a tan background. A small figure in a space helmet and a big gray rocket-shaped jetpack blasts off in a cloud of black smoke, pointing and saying in a speech bubble: "YOU'RE ALL JUST JEALOUS OF MY JETPACK." An arrow labels the figure "SCIENCE FICTION." Below, three drawn figures, one with a pipe, one bald with round glasses, one with a bun, say "TUT TUT." An arrow labels them "PROPER LITERATURE." Wide space-themed infographic titled "The Sol System. At the start of Leviathan Wakes" showing the Sun, planets, moons, asteroid belt and Kuiper belt, with a legend of UN, MCR, OPA control. Footer credits Beinahegut under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Digital concept art of a futuristic floating city in a blue sky with clouds. Pale blue-gray towers, angled walkways and an octagonal platform connect around a central spire, with green gardens and tiny people. Hovercraft fly past. The number 19 appears on the structure. Black bars frame the top and bottom.

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