This piece examines the parallels between sci-fi concepts and current technological achievements, emphasizing the ongoing journey from imagination to reality and pondering ...
As the landscape of artificial intelligence (AI) expands and integrates into various parts of society, it raises new questions. Among the most intriguing of these are the debates surrounding AI rights ...
In 1945, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke proposed something ridiculous: satellites orbiting Earth at exactly the right altitude to stay fixed above one spot, beaming radio signals across ...
Tech giants' obsession with technological solutions overlooks potential negative consequences. Billionaires like Bezos and Musk use space exploration to avoid addressing earthly problems. Ignoring ...
For the past few months, when I really needed to get something done, I put on a special pair of headphones that could read my mind. Well, kind of. The headphones are equipped with a brain-computer ...
On September 8, 1966, Star Trek first aired in the United States, launching a cultural and technological imagination that has profoundly shaped public ...
More than 50 years before ChatGPT could tell you what to cook for dinner, a 1968 science fiction film was shaping how we think about machines that talk to us. In 2001: A Space Odyssey, a Jupiter-bound ...
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Some classic science fiction movies made sweeping predictions for the future. In some cases, those predictions never came to pass, but in others, the movies were strikingly on point. Predictions about ...
Richard Jeffery Wagner, PhD explores love, free will, and sentient companionship in a near future shaped by technology ...
We interview the developers of Aphelion and talk about the game's design philosophies and how that shaped the two-person ...