Sci-fi Novels: Required Reading for Technologists and Lawyers

Author: Jake Saunders, Vice President of Forecasting

Published: 15 Sep 2011

Since this ABI Research insight is going out to a telecoms/connectivity audience, I presume that a large number of us geeks, or at least closet geeks, are coveting the latest smartphones, tablets, or DNLA-enabled entertainment systems. Not only that, a number of us might even be avid or occasional sci-fi readers. Even if you have not picked up a sci-fi paperback or eBook, I’m pretty sure you at least watched Avatar. Arthur C. Clarke was one of the first to demonstrate that there is money to be made from writing sci-fi; famously, he did not patent the concept of the geo-stationary communications satellite. That may have been very egalitarian of him, but more and more sci-fi writers might want to pore through their writings and start patenting some of their more radically conceived ideas as sci-fi ideas increasingly find their place in the corporate boardroom.

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