Food for the Brain
May 14th, 2009
It was no less than Adele Goldberg, one of the invetors of Smalltalk, who said that any computer science library should contain a selection of science-fiction books. As computer scientists we should know what the visions of our field are. We should know what we are striving for. We should know which dreams of mankind we are about to realize. And these visions are written down in science-fictions.
This is, by the way, the same for physics and other science. Studies have shown that the Star Trek series had an impact on career choices in science, and on todays technology in general.