What Dystopian Sci-Fi can Teach us About Disruptive Tech: A Conversation with Max Brooks

We had the pleasure of hosting Max Brooks, bestselling author of several sci-fi novels like “World War Z” and “Devolution.” He provided us with lessons from his own creative process on how to anticipate and create future social worlds. Some of our key takeaways include:

✻ the power of metaphor to strengthen your storytelling,
✻ the importance of being an outsider to understand human behavior,
✻ and why it’s important to ask a big question to understand human behavior

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