Babies born today are likely to be alive to welcome in the next century.
The care they receive and health they enjoy will be radically different, but how?
83 years ago child mortality was high, hunger was rife, and the NHS non-existent. Yet within 40 years, babies were being born with the help of test tubes, and 40 years later, the human genome had been mapped, and more people were eating too much than too little.
In a world where five years counts as long-term, we need to think differently.
‘Writing the Future’ is a major prize for science-fiction short stories about health and health care in 2100.
The care they receive and health they enjoy will be radically different, but how?
83 years ago child mortality was high, hunger was rife, and the NHS non-existent. Yet within 40 years, babies were being born with the help of test tubes, and 40 years later, the human genome had been mapped, and more people were eating too much than too little.
In a world where five years counts as long-term, we need to think differently.
‘Writing the Future’ is a major prize for science-fiction short stories about health and health care in 2100.
SCIENCE FICTION HAS always run AHEAD OF FACT
Mary Shelley, 1818A story of reanimation, organ transplantation, genetic engineering, and medical ethics
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Aldous Huxley, 1931The citizens of London kept sane by mood-altering medicine. Anti-depressants didn’t become the subject of experimentation until the 1950s.
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Kazuo ishiguro, 2005Exploring the impact on health and society of radically extended life spans, human cloning and organ transplants
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Thinking about the real long-term in health is exceptionally limited
This means governments and the NHS are flying blind as to where we're headed
Writing the Future fills this niche, bringing new ideas and creative thinking
Launch: 5/5/17, Closes 8/8/17. Stories: 3000 words. Top prize: £10k.
Contact us for further information.
This means governments and the NHS are flying blind as to where we're headed
Writing the Future fills this niche, bringing new ideas and creative thinking
Launch: 5/5/17, Closes 8/8/17. Stories: 3000 words. Top prize: £10k.
Contact us for further information.