Science and the Imagination
Pursuing human agency and long-term thinking.
Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities: A Collection of Space Futures
Bruce Sterling
Wired – Beyond the Beyond
Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities: A Collection of Space Futures
Why should we go to space? Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities takes on the challenge of imagining new stories at the intersection of public and private—narratives that use the economic and social history of exploration, as well as current technical and scientific research, to inform scenarios for the future of the “new space” era.
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‘Black Panther’ isn’t just another Marvel movie — it’s a vision of a future led by blackness
by Xavier Harding Mic
Climate Change Nurtures a New Genre of Science Fiction
Steve Goldstein
KJZZ 91.5
Margaret Atwood, Prophet?
Ed Finn
Slate – Future Tense
Earth Day Short Fiction: Harold
Jeanne Dietsch
Science Fiction TV Dinner: Fringe
Fringe is a police procedural tailored for a conspiracy-addled culture: a fever dream of near-future biotechnology research, Timothy Leary-esque 1960s counterculture, and the seemingly ineluctable creep of corporate governance. Created by
Overview: Stories in the Stratosphere
A collection of science fiction, art, and speculative timelines exploring the near future of the stratosphere. From Star Trek and 2001: A Space Odyssey to The Martian, great science fiction stories have shaped how we think about voyages into deep space—but what gripping confrontations and adventures might unfold in near space, above the clouds?
Engineering a Superhero
ASU Science & Imagination
Her: Unexpected Frankensteins
Forget Alexa – here’s an artificial intelligence you can truly fall for. Join us Wednesday, July 19 at FilmBar Phoenix for Spike Jonze’s visionary “Her,” part of our Unexpected Frankensteins
Day One of the Imagination Economy
Corey S. Pressman
The Thing: Who is the disease, and who is the cure?
Robert Weisberg
Human Meets Robot.
Patrick McGurrin
Sharp | Distance
Corey S. Pressman
Future Tense Fiction: “Mr. Thursday,” by Emily St. John Mandel
“She’d seen the coat before in this moment, exiting this train, here. Every face in the crowd looked somehow familiar.” Read the full story on Slate.com
“Imagine This”
Groton School Quarterly, Winter 2017
Let Go
Corey S. Pressman
Talking to Bots: Symbiotic Agency and the Case of Tay
Gina Neff and Peter Nagy International Journal Of Communication Download article
Science Fiction Frames: Calibrating AI’s Moral Compass
Patrick McGurrin
Science Fiction Frames: The Repository
Cody Staats