Showing posts with label future. Show all posts
Showing posts with label future. Show all posts
Thursday, May 22, 2025

Yesterday's Tomorrow

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Another glance at some futuristic inventions from fiction that have come into real existence, in this case from the cartoon series THE JETSO...
Thursday, December 05, 2024

Welcome to the Future

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Recommended for fans and writers of near-future science fiction: YOU CALL THIS THE FUTURE? THE GREATEST INVENTIONS SCI-FI IMAGINED AND SCIEN...
Thursday, September 19, 2024

Delayed Gratification

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Cory Doctorow's latest LOCUS column deconstructs the "science fictional" idea of "the right’s confidence in the role of i...
Thursday, August 03, 2023

Retro Futures

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Watching the first few episodes of STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS, which takes place during Captain Christopher Pike's command of the Ent...
Thursday, July 13, 2023

Predicting versus Contesting

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Few, if any, readers and writers of science fiction believe it exists to predict the future. Strikingly on-target foretellings of future eve...
Thursday, May 12, 2022

Writing to the Future

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Cory Doctorow's latest LOCUS column, on writing nonfiction pieces that will still be relevant by the time they're published: Six W...
Thursday, September 30, 2021

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

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The October 2021 issue of NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC features a pair of lead articles about "green" power for aircraft and cars, mainly e...
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Thursday, September 09, 2021

More Futuristic Forecasts

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"Prediction is hard, especially about the future." Over the past week, I've been rereading LIFE AND TIME, a 1978 collection of...
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Thursday, September 02, 2021

Failures of Prediction

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To dispose of one point up front, of course we know the purpose of science fiction isn't literally to predict future technology and soci...
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Thursday, August 27, 2020

Robot Caretakers

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Here's another article, long and detailed, about robot personal attendants for elderly people: Meet Your Robot Caretaker I was a lit...
Thursday, April 18, 2019

Hopeful Futures

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Kameron Hurley's column for the April issue of LOCUS explains how her writing has recently shifted from a pessimistic to an optimistic v...
Thursday, August 02, 2018

Replicators on the Horizon

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Right here in Annapolis, a 3-D printer at the local Home Depot has been used to create a prosthetic limb for a five-year-old boy born withou...
Thursday, February 22, 2018

Is the World Improving?

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Psychologist Steven Pinker has just published a new book, ENLIGHTENMENT NOW, a follow-up to his 2011 book THE BETTER ANGELS OF OUR NATURE: W...
Thursday, August 31, 2017

Food Production of the Future

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Here's an article about tabletop greenhouses controlled by a computer program: A Byte to Eat Food computers "use up to 90 perce...
Thursday, August 24, 2017

Trazzles and Tweedlers

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While re-shelving our books in our newly redecorated basement "library," I came across WHICH WAY TO THE FUTURE? (2001), a collecti...
Thursday, September 15, 2016

Privacy Under Siege?

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Speaking of privacy, as Rowena's recent post does: Cory Doctorow's column in the latest LOCUS delivers warnings about privacy threat...
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Saturday, March 19, 2016

What Are We Putting In The Ocean?

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I'm just back from a short vaction in Florida, and I cannot say that I came away feeling very proud of people. The signs say, "Ke...