Year: 2018
When Robot and Crow Saved East St. Louis
by Annalee Newitz
PWC recommended that corporations should ask science fiction writers about the future
by Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing
The Scientific Origins of Frankenstein
by Javier Yanes, BBVA OpenMind
Forecasters are searching the past for clues about the future
by Kaveh Waddell, Axios
Don’t Be Scared of Killer Robots
by Ed Finn The New York Times
Center for Science and the Imagination and Open Technology Institute Launch “AI Policy Futures”
“Science fiction stories exert a powerful influence on how we think about technology and the future. But if we spend all of our time looking over our shoulders for killer robots, that means we are not looking ahead to discern the outcomes we might actually want.”
The History of the Future of Transportation
Joey Eschrich
Ghost Stories in the Machine
Andrew Dana Hudson
Frankenstein at 200
by Jennifer Schuessler The New York Times
How humans fit into Google’s machine future
by Ed Finn and Andrew Maynard The Conversation
When We Were Patched
Some of us are born in orbit
Jessie Rack
Monsters
ASU Science & Imagination
We Have Always Died in the Castle
Virtual reality technology is no longer confined to computer-science labs and high-tech theme parks. Today, head-mounted goggles, sensors, and haptic control systems are tools for immersive journalism, professional development, and clinical therapy. In this novella, award-winning science fiction and fantasy author Elizabeth Bear and artist Melissa Gay imagine a near future informed by visceral VR simulations to catalyze positive change.
Phoenix will no longer be Phoenix if Waymo’s driverless-car experiment succeeds
By Ed Finn MIT Technology Review