He saw General Semantics as giving him, Heinlein's biographer writes, "the fundamentals of a technology of language , which means a technology of how human beings think. In a Worldcon talk entitled "The Discovery of the Future," Heinlein discussed his admiration for Korzybski at some length. In this talk, Heinlein suggested that the "strongest factor" in science fiction — that is, the reason SF fans love the genre — is because it allows readers to engage in "time-binding.