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Feb 24, 2024 · …science fiction [is] a warning to humanity to resist our controlling, hubristic nature. Not all speculative biology is so light-hearted, however. Some authors have used the genre as a tool to examine human nature.
On this episode on Your Undivided Attention, a podcast from the TED Audio Collective, we're thrilled to have one of the greatest living science-fiction writers: Kim Stanley Robinson. His most recent novel is "The Ministry for the Future," a sweeping epic that reaches into the very near future and imagines what it would take to unite humanity and avoid a mass extinction.
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Aug 12, 2023 · Good science fiction is timeless, delving deep into the psyche of humanity, asking questions that persist through generations. When Arthur C. Clarke penned “2001: A Space Odyssey,” he wasn't merely prophesying a tech-advanced future; he was delving deep into human evolution, consciousness, and our place in the universe – questions as valid now as they were then, and as they will be in ...
- Robots and Ai
- Threats from The Great Beyond
- The Human Condition
- Science vs Nature
- Distorted Reality
Ever since the word “robot” first appearedin the English language in the early 1920s (although it was invented by a Czech writer), science fiction writers have warned about the blurring of the distinction between human and machine. Robots are becoming more and more like humans, such that it may one day become difficult to tell the two apart. But we...
Science fiction is brimming with invasion narratives, the most famous of which is probably H.G. Wells’ classic The War of the Worlds. Wells’ novel, which first appeared in 1898, has since been adapted into numerous films, TV shows and even a musical. Of course, many of these narratives tie in with fears about invasions of one kind of another closer...
Of all the threats confronting the human race, the biggest challenge is by far and a way posed by ourselves. From short-termism and mistaken priorities, to evil corporations shaping the way we think (see: The Space Merchants [1952]), so many science fiction authors draw attention to the many varied failings of the human condition and our often misg...
Despite its name, science fiction has, for many years now, been much closer to science fact. While science fiction writers such as Heinlein, Isaac Asimov and Frederik Pohl dreamed of instant communications and a world of knowledge at our fingertips, the future has now well and truly crashed in on the present and we live in a time now where it’s har...
Of course, one of the most chilling aspects of science fiction working its way into our modern-day world is the way reality is becoming distorted, and it becomes increasingly hard to tell truth from fiction. In this age of consumer culture, social media and fake news, the work of Philip K. Dick is more relevant than ever before, and we should take ...
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Nov 27, 2014 · Blade Runner (Warner Bros) Science fiction films have many warnings for us – not least, how the road to a perfect future society is fraught with peril. Quentin Cooper loads up the DVD player to ...
Apr 22, 2024 · Science fiction widens the frontiers of our aspirations. It introduces us to new technologies that could shape the world, and new ideas and political systems that could organize it. It’s ...
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Dec 31, 2019 · It means science fiction can play a useful role as a forward-scanning radar for technological, social and political trends—but in the near term, not the distant future in which it is often set ...
