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Ai ten visions for the future6/11/2023 ![]() One is that Lee, an advocate of AI and former executive at Apple, Google, and Microsoft, proves to be a lively and skilled popular science writer, while Chen (whose Waste Tide was reviewed here in April 2019) is among the most prominent of the younger generation of Chinese SF writers. (Most of us have that all figured out.) But there are a number of factors that make Kai-Fu Lee & Chen Qiufan’s AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future both enjoyable and enlightening. I’ve generally been skeptical of efforts to match up SF stories with ‘‘science fact’’ essays, partly because ‘‘science fact’’ has always seemed a redundant back-formation that no one would use at all, if it weren’t for the supposed need to remind us that science fiction is, well, fiction. ![]() AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future, Kai-Fu Lee & Chen Qiufan ( Currency 978-9-5, $30.00, 452pp, hc) September 2021. ![]()
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