Should Governments Read Science Fiction?

All Things Policy by Takshashila Institution

Oct 1, 202600:28:17News & Politics

Science fiction has a habit of describing inventions decades before they're built: the submarine, the mobile phone, even the phrase "atomic bomb." Astha Rastogi and Ashwin Prasad Rao ask whether that same imaginative pow...

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