Ficção Científica: duas notas - sobre economia; sobre o "warp drive"

• Paul Krugman e Brad DeLong (economistas) discutem ficção científica e o papel que a economia tem assumido nas narrativas de alguns escritores conhecidos: ver em Grasping Reality with Both Hands: The Semi-Daily Journal Economist Brad DeLong.

• Centauri Dreams » Blog Archive » Warp Drive: A Cottage Industry Emerges. Quem diria? Haverá possibilidade para o comércio interestelar (ver aqui)?

  "You would think that flying to Alpha Centauri in, say, a few days would be a gross violation of Einstein’s laws, but this may not be the case. What Alcubierre proposed was that warp drive could function not by acceleration through space, but by the acceleration of space itself. Interestingly, while there is a seemingly iron-clad prohibition against superluminal movement through space, the movement of spacetime itself is not restricted."