Can science fiction--especially sci-fi cinema--save the world? It already has, many times.
Retired officers testify that films like Doctor Strangelove, Fail-Safe, On the Beach and War Games provoked changes and helped prevent accidental war.
Soylent Green and Silent Running recruited millions of environmental activists.
The China Syndrome and countless movies about plagues helped bring attention to those failure modes.
And the grand-daddy of self-preventing pr.
Mcfarland & Company Vivid tomorrows: on science fiction and hollywood, paperback/david brin
