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This story is from the category Sounding the Future
Date posted: 02/11/2008 In an attempt to inject ?the most inventive possible thinking? into Japan, representatives of many of its most august universities are to become a ?virtual faculty? of the Gundam Academy ? the first academic institution based on a cartoon. Next year dozens of engineers, astrophysicists, doctors, anthropologists, linguists ? even town planners ? will begin discussing how to convert the science-fiction series Gundam, created by Yoshiyuki Tomino, 66, into reality. Shinichi Nakasuka, a professor of astronautics at the University of Tokyo and one of the founders of the academy, said: ?Studying fiction is an excellent way to get ideas about the future. Scientists often restrict their way of thinking to what they factually know. The comic shows how ordinary people without much deep scientific knowledge can come up with very good ideas.? See the full Story via external site: www.timesonline.co.uk Most recent stories in this category (Sounding the Future): 25/08/2012: Invention Will Strike a Chord With Musicians |
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