There are some writers (“hacks!”…ahem) who pen their stories based on other people’s work. You know who they are, the scribes whose work seems derivative of other people’s movies, TV shows, novels, video games, or comics because…well…they are derivatives. Unoriginal. Hackneyed.

And then there are real writers who pen stories based on reality. On human experiences. Or in the case of sci-fi writers, on real science. Damon Lindelof has done that. He co-created TV’s Lost, produced the recent reboot of Star Trek, and has written the upcoming Alien prequel Prometheus.

It’s no surprise then that he interviews Ray Kurzweil, well known futurist, about the flaws of Hollywood sci-fi movies and other real-world aspects all writers should know about. Check it out:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/risky-business/sxsw-2012-damon-lindelof-ray-kurzweil-297218