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Science-fiction novels imagining different climate futures https://transfer-orbit.ghost.io/climate-science-fiction-ministry-for-the-future-veil/ 2 comments 22/4/2021

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Typeset In The Future - Typography and Design in Science Fiction Movies https://typesetinthefuture.com/ 2 comments 1/12/2022 design

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Interview with Blake Crouch about writing Upgrade, his new science-fiction thriller set in a near-future shaped by genetic engineering: "There is no bigger scientific breakthrough in our lifetime, or ever, than CRISPR-Cas9." https://eliotpeper.com/2022/07/wizards-meddling-in-the-source-code-of-life.html 5 comments 20/7/2022 futurology
From Science Fiction to Science Fact: AI and the Future of Humanity https://medium.com/@corkar2123/from-science-fiction-to-science-fact-ai-and-the-future-of-humanity-8c3d36dbbb7b 10 comments 9/2/2025 futurology
Space Elevator – Science Fiction or the Future of Mankind? https://www.youtube.com/watch?amp%3Bspfreload=10&v=qPQQwqGWktE 13 comments 17/4/2016 space
Space Elevator – Science Fiction or the Future of Mankind? https://youtu.be/qPQQwqGWktE 9 comments 8/4/2016 space
Why Our "Amazing" Science Fiction Future Fizzled http://www.cnn.com/2009/tech/science/05/29/jetpack/index.html 55 comments 31/5/2009 science
What science fiction books have influenced future books or get borrowed from the most? http://www.hatrack.com/research/questions/q0029.shtml 21 comments 19/2/2020 books
Bizarre leaked Pentagon video is a science fiction story about the future of cities http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/10/bizarre-leaked-pentagon-video-is-a-science-fiction-story-about-the-future-of-cities/ 9 comments 29/10/2016 worldnews
Bizarre leaked Pentagon video is a science fiction story about the future of cities http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/10/bizarre-leaked-pentagon-video-is-a-science-fiction-story-about-the-future-of-cities/#p3 7 comments 29/10/2016 politics
The French Army is hiring science fiction writers to imagine future threats https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/24/20708432/france-military-science-fiction-writers-red-team 57 comments 28/7/2019 europe
The French Army is hiring science fiction writers to imagine future threats https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/24/20708432/france-military-science-fiction-writers-red-team 32 comments 27/7/2019 books
The French Army is hiring science fiction writers to imagine future threats https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/24/20708432/france-military-science-fiction-writers-red-team 20 comments 24/7/2019 worldnews
Download my science fiction trilogy from Smashwords, entirely for free. It spans from near-future Africa, after the oil economies collapse in the first book, to six centuries later by the third, with the first human colony on Alpha Centauri A. http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/SimonCutting 3 comments 30/6/2011 books
Stephen Fry's warning for the web - "prepare for the internet of the future, or face the worst of science fiction's predictions." http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-40076701 229 comments 29/5/2017 technology
its funny to think we look at the past with History, and yet our only way to look at the future is Science Fiction http://www.reddit.com/r/futurology 16 comments 22/12/2011 history
A World of Electric Children: Science fiction author Ted Chiang wrote the story for the Academy Award–winning film Arrival. Now his new collection of short stories gives us further glimpses of possible futures. http://bostonreview.net/literature-culture/john-crowley-world-electric-children 3 comments 17/6/2019 books
During Trump's present, it's hard to write the future, says science fiction writer John Scalzi http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-scalzi-future-is-now-20170816-story.html 12 comments 28/8/2017 politics
"For decades, science fiction warned of a future when we would be architects of our own obsolescence, replaced by our machines; an Associated Press analysis finds that the future has arrived." http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2013/01/23/us/ap-us-the-great-reset-disappearing-jobs.html 4 comments 23/1/2013 technology
Wondering where the Future went? Science fiction was not over-optimistic. Rather, we have lost the will to explore. http://yarchive.net/physics/effete.html 82 comments 25/3/2008 science
Ode to Samuel Delany: Composed half-a-century ago, The Ballad of Beta-2 was a science-fiction vision of the future that speaks directly to our present. https://daily.jstor.org/ode-to-samuel-delany/ 5 comments 24/2/2023 books
Can Climate Fiction Writers Reach People in Ways That Scientists Can’t? - A new subgenre of science fiction leans on the expertise of biologists and ecologists to imagine a scientifically plausible future Earth https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/can-climate-fiction-writers-reach-people-ways-scientists-cant-180977714/ 11 comments 23/5/2021 books
A video I made about the paradox that, while science fiction gave us visions for the future of artificial intelligence, it also hampered popular understanding of its implications. https://www.youtube.com/watch?amp%3Bfeature=youtube_gdata_player&v=-mtSfq7R4BU 20 comments 8/1/2014 artificial
in 1995, bill gates released a book called "The Road Ahead." it included a CD with some "science fiction" videos depicting the future of personal electronics. nailed it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jljPuzr28CU 25 comments 27/10/2011 technology
UK science fiction writer Charles Stross, author of novels Accelerando and Singularity Sky, posits a future in which all human experience is record on devices the size of a grain of sand. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6287126.stm 14 comments 10/7/2007 reddit.com
LN Labs changing course to science fiction? -- "In our story, Carol lives in the not-too-distant future when Lightning is growing beyond the technical community and starting to become ready for everyday users." https://blog.lightning.engineering/posts/2018/05/02/lightning-ux.html 7 comments 2/5/2018 btc
Inside the world of Chinese science fiction, with “Three Body Problem” translator Ken Liu (about his anthology “Invisible Planets”, the process of translating science fiction, and how Chinese authors see the future, at New York’s Book Riot Live festival in early November) http://qz.com/847181/chinese-sci-fi-the-three-body-problem-and-invisible-planets-with-translator-ken-liu/ 6 comments 3/12/2016 books
Frozen body: Can we return from the dead?"The idea of preserving a person's body at very low temperatures in the hope that it will be restored by future medical technology has been a staple of science fiction. But could cryonics be a genuine way of being brought back to life, years into the future?" http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/0/23695785?ocid=socialflow_twitter_bbcworld 3 comments 15/8/2013 science
In a world where the olympic games, once a celebration of peace, have been hijacked by a siege mentality with batteries of rockets on apartment roofs, 36,000 troops...and drones we must realise that the dystopian future predicted by so much science fiction has come true. http://stopwarcoalition.org/irene-doutneys-speech-to-rally-for-assange-wikileaks-15-july-2012/ 3 comments 19/7/2012 politics
"Now, Star Trek showed the future where there were black folk and white folk working together." And back in the 1960s, that premise didn't seem believable, Carl says."I just looked at it as science fiction, he says. "But Ronald saw it as science possibility." http://www.npr.org/2011/01/28/133275198/astronauts-brother-recalls-a-man-who-dreamed-big 3 comments 28/1/2011 science
Storing data in DNA sounds like science fiction, yet it lies in the near future. Experts expect the first DNA data center to be up and running within five to ten years. Data won't be stored as zeros and ones in a hard drive but in the base pairs that make up DNA. https://essayserviceprof.com/data-dna/ 14 comments 28/5/2023 privacy
Storing data in DNA sounds like science fiction, yet it lies in the near future. Experts expect the first DNA data center to be up and running within five to ten years. Data won't be stored as zeros and ones in a hard drive but in the base pairs that make up DNA https://essayserviceprof.com/data-dna/ 4 comments 27/5/2023 dataisbeautiful
Five Reasons MLB Free Agents Are Signing Longer Deals Than Ever. New contracts for baseball’s marquee free agents extend so far into the future that the latter years sound like science fiction. What are the sport-specific and economic factors behind this trend? https://www.theringer.com/mlb/2022/12/22/23522591/mlb-free-agents-long-term-contracts 4 comments 22/12/2022 baseball