Quoting Julian Gough

There was a long period of time where the artists extracted the meaning from the data that the scientists provided. I thought that was a very healthy ecosystem. Galvanism […] was witnessed by Mary Shelley […] and then she writes Frankenstein. Frankenstein is the artistic extraction of the meaning from the data of the early electrical experiments. Jules Verne sends men to the moon and invents submarines and does all this stuff, extracting the meaning from a lot of the technological and scientific data around him at the time […]. H. G. Wells was doing the same. […] You had Asimov and Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke. […] And I think […] as science has got more and more specialized, Writers have retreated from trying to understand science and extract the meaning from it […]. Because it’s hard to follow. It’s really difficult to follow modern science. It’s become a whole bunch of sub-sub-specialties with privatised jargons. […] They really don’t even understand each other. So it’s totally fragmented and there’s no one synthesizing it because all of the most interesting truths tend to come from taking an idea from one field and applying it to another field where it has wonderful application […]. And there’s hardly anyone doing that.

– Julian Gough in conversation with Ben Yeoh.