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Emily Tan
May 24, 2016

Why the Star Trek communicator is both wrong, and right: Greg Borenstein

HONG KONG - Science fiction can both be brilliant and terrible at predicting the future of technology and how people will interact with it, said Greg Borenstein, game designer, technologist and consulting futurist for the Minority Report TV series, during his keynote talk at The Economist’s Marketing Unbound conference.

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