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ⓒThe Artists & Art Centre Art Moment

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ⓒThe Artists & Art Centre Art Moment

Kim Yujung, Floating Island
2021 ⓒThe Artists & Art Centre Art Moment

Moon Sujin, Living Island
2020 ⓒThe Artists & Art Centre Art Moment

			Aldous Leonard Huxley, William Ford Gibson, Ted Chiang, and Kazuo Ishiguro are the authors who published stories about how future developments in science and technology could lead to social and individual life. They continue to connect the future and the present with amazing imagination and insight, and continue to communicate with readers across generations and centuries through their works. Each of the four novelists predicted the future in their own way. Predicting the future is possible because it is in contact with the present, and being able to tell the future is possible because it presupposes the interconnection of history that the present stems from the past. Therefore, the novelists' prospects reflect a certain degree of reality, despite being fictional. Optimists want to listen to the message these novelists want to convey to us with a realistic future social outlook.

"Optimist" can be interpreted as referring to a person who overcomes current difficulties with the power of hope for a bright future, or to a person with a bystander attitude full of rosy prospects for the future. An optimist's dream of a future will determine his attitude and attitude toward life, affecting the network of all relationships he experiences. Our attitude toward life, and our connections to relationships with others, will again determine the Zeitgeist aspect of the times.