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Sci fi 'inspires not predicts' the future

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The British Library's latest science fiction exhibition examines how the genre has developed since the second century AD.

Professor Kevin Warwick, a cybernetics scientist at Reading, and Cory Doctorow, sci-fi writer and blogger, debate its literary and practical value.


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