#42 Heartland Podcast: Etienne Augé & Thore Husfeldt

At Heartland 2019, scholar and writer Etienne Augé met with professor of computer science Thore Husfeldt. In front of a live audience, the two discussed science fiction and how it has and will shape the future.In this conversation, the two participants discuss if science fiction is creating a dystopian future. There have been several examples where works of science fiction have predicted the future – cloning, artificial intelligence, surveillance, and so on – but is science fiction only predicting, or is it actually shaping and creating the future? And maybe even a dystopian one, which many works of science fiction depict.The two participants discuss if science fiction is the new realism and how technology depicted in fiction have the ability to make us aware of the dangers and how it can make us take a moral stand to avoid a dystopian future.Future Talks is supported by Lundbeckfonden. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Om Podcasten

The Heartland podcast primarily features live conversations from the festival’s talks program and is an initiative created to focus on the future that we already live in. Heartland’s ambition is to engage its guests in the world by creating a contemporary cultural platform where people can gain new perspectives on the transformation and development of our world.Heartland’s talks program has established itself as one of the most esteemed stages for live conversations in Northern Europe and has hosted some of the world’s greatest minds and artists since its start in 2016. Among others, Sir Salman Rushdie, Angela Davis, Marina Abramović, Brian Eno, Margaret Atwood, Slavoj Žižek, Werner Herzog, PJ Harvey, Michael Stipe, Tracey Emin, Jonathan Franzen, Vivienne Westwood, Judith Butler, Douglas Coupland, David Shrigley, Kim Gordon, Joshua Oppenheimer, Bjarke Ingels, and Olafur Eliasson have been a part of the talks program. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.