[SKRIVA] NewScis sf-blaskas "First Announcement"

From: Ahrvid Engholm <ahrvid@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <skriva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <sverifandom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 12:24:26 +0100
Har skrivit tidigare om brittiska New Scientists planer på att starta en 
sf-liknande blaska, Arc. Här deras "First Announcement":

"Our first author announcement! 


"Visionaries, prophets and seers are common to all mankind," says Bruce 
Sterling, "but only societies with science can breed futurists." Arc is a 
magazine about the future, but we're still working out what that means. So we 
asked Sterling, one of science fiction's more astute writers and commentators 
to explain: what is futurism anyway?
Sterling's response - a trademark mixture of sardonic observation and practical 
optimism - kicks off Arc's inaugural issue. Here's a snippet.
"Combine the aggressive confidence of science and the speculative needs of 
business and you get that unique Western omen-reader, the futurist. His basic 
task: to foresee what will become "modern" while it is still futuristic. It's 
dodgy work, but someone has to try it.
"Since no mere human being can possibly know the future, futurism is always 
peculiar and sometimes hazardous. The precursor work of all futurism, published 
way back in 1795, was the Marquis de Condorcet's Sketch for a Historical 
Picture of the Progress of the Human Spirit. Condorcet was a brilliant 
Enlightenment mathematician who daringly threw himself into French 
revolutionary politics. While hiding underground from the Terror, Condorcet 
wrote his heartfelt forecast of a golden, rational, technocratic world. They 
caught him. He died in jail."
Find out what happened next in Arc 1.1, available on Kindle and iPad in late 
February. 
More authors announced soon! To stay up to date with the latest Arc 
announcements, check out the Arc blog, follow on Twitter or like on Facebook."

Se även www.newscientist.com/arc

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