David Brin is an astrophysicist and bestselling novelist. He consults for NASA, companies, and nonprofits about the onrushing future. In the first half, he shared his thoughts on space exploration, AI, SETI, the state of the science fiction genre, and the future of humanity. "Only about 10% of science fiction authors are scientifically trained as I am, but a lot of them are really good at what's called hard science fiction," which has solidly grounded scientific speculation, he noted. One such work he cited is "The Ministry of the Future" by Kim Stanley… Lees meer