Chen Qiufan

Jul 14, 2024 | news.stanford.edu | Ursula Le Guin |Chen Qiufan

Technology is transforming society, sometimes in unpredictable ways. In a spring quarter course taught by Stanford Professor Ban Wang, COLLEGE 113: Utopia, Dystopia, and Technology in Science Fiction, students considered some of those potential changes by using science fiction as a way to imagine what could unfold and their own responsibility and agency in that future.

Nov 1, 2023 | imaginingthedigitalfuture.org | Chen Qiufan |Esther Dyson |Jerome C Glenn |Janna Anderson

“The distant yet rapidly approaching horizon of 2040 beckons, a tableau yet to be etched but keenly imagined amidst the swirl of present-day aspirations and trepidations. The narrative of artificial intelligence, that Prometheus of silicon and code, unfurls with every tick of the temporal tapestry, promising to redefine the contours of existence, both at the hearth of the individual and at the broader agora of societal discourse.