Why Science Fiction Builds the Future: How Fictional Ideas Become Real-World Breakthroughs

About the Author

Griselda Nunez is a technology writer, futurist, and speaker who has spent her career investigating how the stories we tell about the future shape the machines we actually build. She began as a software engineer building consumer products, and she kept noticing the same pattern: the features people got most excited about were the ones that already existed in fiction. That observation grew into a decade-long research project—interviewing engineers, sifting archives, and teaching workshops—and finally into this book. Her essays on innovation, technology ethics, and speculative design have appeared in a range of technology and culture publications, and she speaks regularly at engineering conferences, universities, and design schools. She also runs a popular newsletter about the futures hiding inside everyday technology and leads a workshop called "Reading the Future" that helps engineers and policymakers turn fiction into design briefs. When she is not writing, she can usually be found in a used bookstore, looking for the next idea that has not been built yet.