WHY THE
FUTURE NEEDS
STORYTELLERS

Which professions will play the biggest role in shaping the future? Software engineers? Roboticists? Or... storytellers?

From mobile phones, voice assistants and virtual reality to space travel and submarines, many world-changing inventions have appeared in fiction long before they’ve become part of our reality.

But beyond predicting new technologies, science fiction can tell us something much more important about the future. And it's a lesson that many engineers and technologists all too often miss. Just look at Elon Musk and his misreading of Frank Herbert’s classic novel Dune…