Charlie Jane Anders
Author & Sci-Fi Visionary | Blending Creativity and Technology
About
Charlie Jane Anders is an award-winning author whose groundbreaking work blends speculative fiction, technology, and the human experience. Her novel 'All the Birds in the Sky' won the Nebula, Locus, and BASFA awards, cementing her reputation as a bold storyteller.
Anders' popular TED Talks explore how creativity can be a powerful tool for exploring the implications of emerging technologies. Her keynotes challenge audiences to imagine future scenarios and their moral dimensions, sparking thought-provoking discussions on the role of innovation in shaping the world to come.
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Go ahead, dream about the future
"You don't predict the future -- you imagine the future," says sci-fi writer Charlie Jane Anders. In a talk that's part dream, part research-based extrapolation, she takes us on a wild, speculative tour of the delights and challenges the future may hold -- and shows how dreaming up weird, futuristic possibilities empowers us to construct a better tomorrow.
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