“Too much nostalgia poisons vitality and creativity in any field. But sf should be especially allergic to nostalgia. Science fiction’s most important contribution to the culture, it seems to me, is not to predict the future but to imagine it. To help us get our minds around the headlong-into-the-future-without-brakes nature of current times, to ponder how to remain/be/become human amidst this profound technological and cultural change that’s under no one’s control.” — Judith Berman