These issues range from the nature of time, language, and memory, to the impact of technology. He is a master of what he describes as “philosophical thought experiments” that raise issues “widely applicable to our lives.” “It allows you to discuss these issues in a way that is sometimes easier for readers to recognize than when you are talking about them literally.” Chiang is the author of the short story, Story of Your Life, which was made into the Oscar-nominated film Arrival, and of two excellent collections of short fiction. “Science Fiction offers a way to talk about things, issues that are relevant to us, metaphorically,” says writer Ted Chiang. This is perhaps why science fiction has a unique ability to help us think differently-to literally take us to another world. Even a scientific theory is fictional until proven. We tell stories so that other people can imagine an experience we want to share. But unlike industrial labor, knowledge work, for all of its data, is much harder to measure, and stories are a proven method for trying on alternate realities that we may or may not want to manifest. Why do we tell stories? And why in a world with such an overabundance of information is there even room for fiction? Access to information has made our jobs increasingly data-driven and would appear to put a premium on being factual.
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