"Mimsy Were the Borogoves"

In anticipation of the American Society of Cybernetics' conference, I read the story by which this post is titled. I have made it available to you if you wish to read it, here. The short story, written in 1943, is revealing of a future we live now, and I believe it holds insight into a possible one ahead. It was written by Catherine Lucille Moore and Henry Kuttner under the pseudonym Lewis Padgett, and was judged among the best science-fiction short stories written before 1965 by the Science Fiction Writers of America. Engrossed by the story, and coming up for air to put it in a form that I can now annotate it, I am reminded of how precious my subscription to Fantasy & Science Fiction Magazine was as a child. I must have been 8 or 9, and I looked forward to the collection of stories. So many of the visions of that era have become reality, and are on their way. Reminiscent of these precious memories, I plan on submitting a workshop to the conference that will give us another way of seeing the future by combining it with my doctoral research thesis. The documentary film Tomorrow (2015) gave many alternatives that people all over Earth are attempting, but the stories are still fragmented. In the movie, one man, exasperated, states that we need new stories; we have been so good at making stories of our own demise, but we need vast collections of stories of a future filled with light. As we move forward, we must create positive visions of a future we love and a cherished world. What kinds of connections can we imagine and bring forth into being? In the spirit of Robert E. L. Masters and Jean Houston in their book Mind Games, may we recreate our reality and make a better one for the future.