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author, journalist and cultural critic
Nick Romeo is an author, journalist and cultural critic.
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CEOs and military use sci-fi writers to predict future Writers of science fiction imagine the future, and while some undoubtedly hit it big, it's not a get-rich profession. That may be changing. In the New Yorker magazine, Nick Romeo reports on a company called SciFutures — which churns out scenarios, good and bad, for corporations—and the military.
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