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Why Today's Inventors Need to Read More Science Fiction

MIT researchers Dan Novy and Sophia Brueckner argue that the mind-bending worlds of authors such as Philip K. Dick and Arthur C. Clarke can ...

The real science of science fiction - The Guardian

And science fiction authors are inspired by future science possibilities. But how do novel scientific ideas get into SF authors' heads in the ...

8 Times Science Fiction Got It Right | The Saturday Evening Post

8 Times Science Fiction Got It Right · 1. A Major Pandemic · 2. Missions to The Moon · 3. Translators · 4. The Internet · 5. Commercial Spaceflight.

How Science Fiction in Education Can Inspire Students to Fulfil ...

Bringing space-age allegory to the classroom · This indirection and sense of detachment allows science fiction to give students the confidence to ask probing ...

Science Fiction and Social Awareness - A Matter of Scale

Once upon a time science fiction propelled engineers and scientists to create ideas and technologies which are only now becoming a reality. Look ...

Science Fiction Can Still Deliver Visions Of The Future

The overarching theme is the pursuit of rational and scientific methods to transcend the current limitations of the human condition. All very ...

How to Write Science Fiction (+ Stellar Tips from Editors) | LitReactor

Science fiction is a genre involving scientific speculation about our world — and typically other worlds as well. It's often based on major ...

How to Write a Science Fiction Story - Turner Stories

I love science fiction because it's a beautiful way to hold up a mirror to the reader, dealing with futuristic concepts, ideas, speculations, ...

What Idea From Science Fiction Would You Most Like To See ...

While any inventor can develop a device and bring it into existence, sci-fi authors can pair their imaginings with philosophical and ethical ...

Sci-fi writers help scientists bridge gap between fantasy and reality

“It's an unusual thing for a university to do because it brings together a variety of different people who wouldn't usually work together,” says ...

The Purpose of Science Fiction - Slate Magazine

But science-fiction writers do get to talk about the real meaning of research. We're not beholden to skittish funding bodies and so are free to ...

Science Fiction: The Evolutionary Mythology of the Future

It personally draws us into the fantastical possibilities of tomorrow. We experience the future along all the dimensions of human consciousness. Indeed, for ...

Science fiction and science futures: considering the role of fictions in ...

Here is an area of research that could bring together science communicators, literary scholars, and social scientists (even historians) to ...

Can Science Fiction Predict the Future of Technology? - JSTOR Daily

Science fiction isn't limited to predicting tech developments: It's more broadly concerned with imagining possible futures, or alternative ...

Can science fiction reimagine the future of global development?

Science fiction (or sci-fi) and speculative fiction are one way to imagine alternative futures that I think hold promise for development.

The complicated relationship between science and sci-fi

Some science fiction is perhaps better called technology fiction. You imagine a piece of technology that doesn't exist yet, but could exist in ...

From Science Fiction to Science Fact - Obama White House

Many technologies and ideas that seem like science fiction today -- such as Harry Potter's cloak of invisibility, an Iron Man suit, or Andy ...

Is Star Wars Science Fiction? – Marie Vibbert, author

Which brings me to my next point… These Types of Purity Tests are ... Here are some responses I've gotten from Real People when I say I write ...

Read the future with science fiction and AI | IESE Insight

Science fiction entertains, but it also raises big questions about how societies can be organized, what they can achieve and what can go wrong.

(PDF) Reading reality through science fiction - ResearchGate

Big questions over the future of humankind have traditionally given legitimacy to popular stories about science and technology.