What YOU Can Do to Ensure a BETTER FUTURE | David Brin on Conversations with Tom Pinned Comment:

<p>Check out our Sponsors</p> <p>Athletic Greens: Go to athleticgreens.com/impact and receive a FREE 1 year supply of Vitamin D AND 5 free travel packs with your first purchase!</p> <p>Helium 10: Get 50% OFF your first month of Helium 10 Platinum at Helium10.com and use code IMPACT at check out.</p> <p>Headspace: Go to headspace.com/impact for a FREE ONE-MONTH TRIAL with access to Headspace’s full library of meditations for every situation.</p> <p>Audible: Start listening with a 30-day free trial, one free audiobook and access to the Plus Catalog. Visit audible.com/IMPACTTHEORY or text IMPACTTHEORY to 500-500</p> <p> </p> <p>To know where you are going, they say you should know where you’ve been. Science fiction has been well documented for its often accurate predictions and a loved being a social curiosity for many. In this episode, Tom is joined by physicist and bestselling science fiction author, David Brin. David exposes how science fiction can be more accurately described as “speculative history” than anything else. Their conversation explores society through history from the Periclean times all the way through modern U.S. politics and what a transparent society top-down, and bottom-up would imply and necessitate.</p> <p> </p> <p>TASAT project mentioned to check out: <a href= "http://tasat.ucsd.edu/"><span class= "s7">http://tasat.ucsd.edu/</span></a></p> <p> </p> <p><span class="s2">SHOW NOTES:</span></p> <p> </p> <p>History | Using history to write science fiction and being a good ancestor[1:42]</p> <p>Science Fiction | Writing sci-fi and the historical connection making it speculative history [6:15]</p> <p>Anticipation | How empathy allows anticipation & resilience to increase taking hard hits [9:51]</p> <p>Hollywood Propaganda | David breaks down the notion of improve-ability [16:45]</p> <p>Positive Sum Game | Winning more while helping others win versus zero-sum game [21:14]</p> <p>Self Preventing Prophecy | The propaganda messages saying all humans are bad [27:08]</p> <p>Criticism & Delusion | Being ma