Governments should use speculative fiction tools to predict the future

Legislators must act like authors of speculative fiction and foresee how technology will change our world, writers say Ray Naylor

To Ray Naylor

There’s been enough dystopia recently to make it seem worthy of a cyberpunk novel. She put implants in a blind woman to make her see again, but after a few years the implants failed and she was blind again. The company that invented the implant was in financial trouble and stopped supporting the product, so no one was there to help. She still has dead implants in her eyes because surgery to remove them is too risky.

How this happened is very simple. Technology companies sometimes stop supporting their products. who…