“Lots of the technologies we use every day don’t fit the imaginary we conjure up when we hear the word technology in relation to the future. Science fiction is a technology, gender is a technology, language is a technology. The capacity of language to shape thought is well-explored territory in science fiction. In Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed (1974), the inhabitants of the anarcho-syndicalist society of Anarres speak Pravic, a language that doesn’t use the possessive case in order to discourage feelings of ownership…”

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