The Future is a Script: How NASA and the DoD Use Speculative Fiction to Shape Reality I know, the future feels like a freight train coming at you in the dark, and half the time we’re just hoping the tracks were laid correctly. But here is the secret: the people driving that train—the Pentagon, NASA, the Department of Homeland Security—are steering it using ideas they found in paperbacks. It sounds like a conspiracy theory for nerds, but it’s actually institutional policy.

The future isn’t a surprise; it’s a script we’ve been writing for decades.
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