Sentences with phrase «fictional future»

For a different take on the climate challenge, watch Naomi Oreskes, the Harvard historian *, describe her research on scientists as sentinels and her new book of fictional future climate history, «The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future,» co-written with Erik M. Conway.

Whether their works explore the current situation in Angola, fictional future cities, the politics of food production or migration from Syria to Beirut; there is humour, surrealism and provocation.

In the science - fictional future America, however, their only choices are plain white cans labeled «drink.»

Set in a fictional future where a single company looms, Big Brother — like, over all of Internet commerce and connection, the book presents an absolute worst - case scenario for our current mass - experiment in living online.

Martin Saunders asks, what does this horrific vision of a fictional future have to say to us about the hidden horrors of our present reality?

Just as the phoenix rose... okay, it's only fiction, but just as Jesus rose... no, that's fiction too, well, anyway, the fictional Christian nation of Ameristan will rise like the Jesus Zombie Bird in the fictional future to create a fictional dystopia.

Beginning today, as part of Special Operation I — the first major update in the second year of post-launch content for Wildlands — players swill be able to team up with Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell «s iconic Sam Fisher and help him complete his new high - risk infiltration mission in the fictional future Bolvia.

Release Date: Nov 6, 2007 Developer: Infinity Ward Publisher: Activision Genre: Action, First Person Shooter Theme: Modern Military Rating: M for Mature Game Modes: Single player, multiplayer DLC / Expansions: Variety Map Pack In the single player portion of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare players take on the role of a US Marine and British SAS operative as they fight in a fictional future war between US, Europe and Russian loyalists against Middle East and Russian rebels.

She added: «It may be set in a fictional future but it is a powerful piece that very much speaks to current celebrity culture and our own lives, which are very much controlled by social media.»

From 2006 to 2008, I worked with an anthropologist to documented a fictional future world called No Place.

In some fictional future, they might be unreliable carriers of this formative origin story or trauma.

That means global economic growth of 2.94 per cent per year, in contrast to three per cent growth in a fictional future where there is no climate change (known as a baseline scenario), according to the IPCC's calculations.

My initial reaction was that he was just making up stuff, providing intricate details about a fictional future where his services will be in far greater demand... Read entire article»