Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:38:11 -0400
From: Ted White <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Fwd: The Future Is Now (acc. to WaPO's Achenbach...)
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Keith F. Lynch wrote:

>  From: kevrob <AnSpideog at gmail.com> Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.fandom
>  Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:56:51 -0700 (PDT)
>
>  One of my local papers reprinted this article:
>
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/11/AR2008041103328.html
>
>  or http://preview.tinyurl.com/646r6f
>
[...]
>
>  I was pleasantly surprised to see, in the MSM, a rationale for
>  reading SF that I have long held to:  that aside from SF's imperfect
>  predictive power, its readers acquire a habits of mind that help them
>  deal with change.

Back when I was editing AMAZING and giving lectures at the Smithsonian
and UMd, my theme was exactly that.

--Ted White