{"636559":{"#nid":"636559","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"We\u2019re Living in the Retro-Future","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPerspectives from School of Literature, Media, and Communication Professor Lisa Yaszek were quoted extensively in the article \u0026quot;Living in the Retro-Future\u0026quot; published in The Atlantic on June 25, 2020.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELisa Yaszek, a science-fiction-studies professor at Georgia Tech, notes that speculative fiction has also predicted remote learning and remote work, as well as social distancing to deter disease. Ursula K. Le Guin\u0026rsquo;s 1994 story \u0026ldquo;Solitude,\u0026rdquo; for example, \u0026ldquo;imagines a world in which people are socially isolated from one another, but the isolation leads to self-reliance,\u0026rdquo; Yaszek told me. And Leslie F. Stone\u0026rsquo;s \u0026ldquo;A Letter of the Twenty-Fourth Century,\u0026rdquo; written in 1929, \u0026ldquo;imagines a future where we\u0026rsquo;ve managed to beat disease and germs in part through medical intervention, but also in part through social distancing.\u0026rdquo; Stone \u0026ldquo;imagines the invention of the internet, and she imagines that in the future, there will be no crowds because everyone stays home. They get their school from the TV; they get their education from the TV. They do politics online,\u0026rdquo; Yaszek said. \u0026ldquo;And they\u0026rsquo;re not having electronic election problems in \u003Cem\u003Etheir \u003C\/em\u003Efuture.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/family\/archive\/2020\/06\/coronavirus-era-retro-future\/613489\/\u0022\u003ERead the full article.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27167","created_gmt":"2020-06-26 13:41:38","changed_gmt":"2020-07-23 16:10:57","author":"Rebecca Keane","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"JS Coon Building","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/family\/archive\/2020\/06\/coronavirus-era-retro-future\/613489\/","dateline":{"date":"2020-06-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-06-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"628451":{"id":"628451","type":"image","title":"Lisa Yaszek","body":null,"created":"1572548549","gmt_created":"2019-10-31 19:02:29","changed":"1572552353","gmt_changed":"2019-10-31 20:05:53","alt":"","file":{"fid":"239346","name":"Lisa Yaszek 740Xx scale.small_.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Lisa%20Yaszek%20740Xx%20scale.small__0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Lisa%20Yaszek%20740Xx%20scale.small__0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":91906,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Lisa%20Yaszek%20740Xx%20scale.small__0.jpg?itok=aSxwf4ln"}}},"media_ids":["628451"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"11021","name":"Lisa Yaszek"},{"id":"167171","name":"science fiction"},{"id":"729","name":"pandemic"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}