Wednesday, January 02, 2013

Eighteen predictions for 2013 from science fiction

At io9 Lauren Davis looked at what science fiction books, television, comics, and movies say will happen in year 2013, including:
Neuroscientists will develop an accurate test for sociopathy in men (A Philosophical Investigation by Philip Kerr).

In the 2013 of Kerr's novel, a neuroscientist has discovered that an abnormality in men's brains is an incredibly reliable indicator of violent sociopathy. In the UK, the nature of criminal punishment has changed by this year, with punitive comas replacing imprisonment and capital punishment.
Read about another prediction from the list.

--Marshal Zeringue