Guest Lecture Series David Brin – Can Science Fiction Change The World?

David Brin Can Science Fiction Change the World? David Brin is a scientist, speaker, technical consultant, and world-known author. His novels have been New York Times Bestsellers, winning multiple Hugo, Nebula, and other awards. At least a dozen have been translated into more than twenty languages. Some of his best-known novels include Earth, The Postman (filmed in 1997), and Hugo Award winners Startide Rising and The Uplift War. A leading commentator and speaker on modern trends, his nonfiction book The Transparent Society won the Freedom of Speech Award of the American Library Association. Brin serves on advisory committees dealing with subjects as diverse as national defense and homeland security, astronomy and space exploration, SETI and nanotechnology, future/prediction and philanthropy. He has served since 2010 on the council of external advisers for NASA's Innovative and Advanced Concepts group (NIAC), which supports the most inventive and potentially ground-breaking new endeavors. In 2013, David Brin helped to establish the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination at UCSD, where he was honored as a "distinguished alumnus" and where he was thereafter a Visiting Scholar in Residence. Brin's newest novel Existence explores the ultimate question: billions of planets are ripe for life. So where is Everybody? David's main thread: how will we shape the days and years ahead – and how will tomorrow shape us? David Brin's guest lecture is titled "Can Science Fiction Change the World?" Recordings from Saturday, July 25, 2015: Watch: Guest Lecture Video Listen: Guest Lecture Audio Review: Additional Resources

• Will we diversify into many types of humanity? (Video at Smithsonian Magazine; slides)
• Indignation, addiction and hope — does it help to be "mad as hell?" (TEDx talk; slides)
• Closer to Truth (Video series)
• Existence official trailer (YouTube Video)