This week the 2009 Homeland Security Science & Technology Stakeholders Conference brought together Science Fiction writers and Homeland Security people.
The conference is to bring people who think outside of the box to look for ways to break old habits of thought.
“We’re stuck in a paradigm of databases,” [Harry] McDavid [chief information officer for Homeland Security's Office of Operations Coordination & Planning] said … “How do we jump out of our infrastructure and start conceptualizing those threats? That’s very cool.”
Science fiction writers look at the possibilities of the future:
Would the space program have flourished so quickly without a generation of engineers and scientists that grew up reading Robert Heinlein? Has anything been invented that somebody didn’t first imagine and put in a story?
I’ve always enjoyed reading Science Fiction for the great stories, who knew that they could also help plan for our nation’s future?
via PW Daily
posting by Lorraine
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