Science fiction writers can be eerily prescient. Consider what John Brunner got right about our world in 2010, as described in his 1968 novel “Stand on Zanzibar”: a world shaken up by ...

If you thought you weren't a science-fiction fan, think again. There's no need to avoid sci-fi films entirely because they ...

Zócalo Public Square is a magazine of ideas from Arizona State University Knowledge Enterprise. Science fiction writers can be eerily prescient. Consider what John Brunner got right about our ...

Militaries plunder science fiction for technology ideas, but turn a blind eye to the genre’s social commentary Published: July 26, 2021 9:16am EDT. Will Slocombe, University of Liverpool. Author ...

Today, I count more than thirty scientists who are writing science fiction based on ideas that could be ripped out of the pages of Nature or The Astrophysical Journal. Besides the authors I will ...

The pattern of science fiction anticipating, or at least dovetailing with, cutting-edge real-world ideas is not new: In a 2016 article for The Atlantic, Edward Simon explored the sci-fi that was ...

The science fiction ideas only need to be interesting and describable. The SF idea should make a cool mock-up. The limits are not whether it can be built and sold successfully for a profit. Can we ...

Despite its global fame and borderline scary technology, OpenAI wasn’t always the multi-billion-dollar giant it is today.

Science fiction is literature of ideas – it’s just that sometimes, those ideas are lifted from elsewhere. Some of the genre’s greatest creators have gotten ripped off, or been accused of ...

I n 1950, a U.S. Army psyops officer named Paul Linebarger used a pseudonym to publish a science-fiction story titled “Scanners Live in Vain” in a pulp magazine.It was about a man named Martel ...