The future cannot be written
04 June 2021
The future is, at its essence, a matter of reading and not writing, and so it can only be read where it has not yet been penned.
We are living in a simulation
27 May 2021
My prediction for the Middle East in 300 years is that by then the world—and not just the Middle East—will embrace a simulation theory.
The future is one current moment, extended
21 May 2021
When people look to the future, or when writers write about it, it’s as if the future is something that will happen later. In reality, there is no such thing...
Nothing will change
14 May 2021
“One character dies and another comes to take his place with the same form of expression, the same form of indoctrination, the same form of thinking, of education, of many...
Universalism and the distant future
06 May 2021
I don’t think that the future will necessarily be dystopian or bad. Any country or society can change drastically in just 50 or 100 years. We are talking about 300...
Future disappointments
30 April 2021
For a long time, my country, Syria, has been subjected to an exceptional state of affairs: emergency laws and state agencies that regulated obedience. I think that if this “exceptional...
Pillars of science fiction
29 April 2021
Novels, dramas and films tend towards disasters and new systems that in the end turn out to be bad or catastrophic—and this is true on a realistic level, not only...
