Sentences with phrase «like science fiction just»

Sharing an ambition that would have sounded like science fiction just a few years back, Herr and a handful of other prosthetics engineers are now working to create lifelike limbs that users can control with their minds.

There are a few times in our lives when science astonishes us, when we are suddenly able to do something that seemed like science fiction just the day before.

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«Things that would have seemed science fiction to me just maybe five to 10 years ago — like getting a billion cells for each heart — now are doable,» LaFlamme, the investigator on the heart program, said.

He didn't want to make it look like just a mechanical mat... which is typically what happens with robots in science fiction films.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but it was just a popular fictional genre back then, like science fiction now.

My personal opinion sounds a bit like science fiction, I suppose... I sort of think that God didn't create the rest of the universe just so we could have pretty stars in the sky.

Armstrong's vision sounds like science fiction, but she's just describing what tomorrow's air and water filtration systems might look like.

I suspect a scenario like I've given is what people have in mind when they think that higher «natural» variability would indicate reduced sensitivity, but until somebody puts specific mechanisms on the table, it's just science fiction.

It is worth seeing, especially if you like science fiction; as movie, it's just decent.

And those novels, just like novels in genres like science fiction and mystery, share common elements but vary in quality, depending on how well they're written.

French filmmaker Luc Besson (The Family, Brick Mansions) writes and directs Lucy, a loopy, high - concept science fiction thriller that, like most Besson efforts, is actually just a dumb and goofy action genre film masquerading as a smart and insightful one.

In December / January for the last few years we've been treated to the likes of American Hustle and Joy, and this year we get to see J - Law in a thrilling new science - fiction movie called Passengers, the first clip for which has just arrived online.

And yet, his latest work plays just as much like a blown - up, fun home image of Mike Judge's «Idiocracy,» as it too uses the conventions of science fiction to mount a caustic social satire.

They're an escape for people, just like any movie whether it's science fiction or comedy, to experience something that they haven't.

My movie - going has diminished significantly because I'm not a big fan of science fiction, I don't like horror pictures and sometimes pictures are so depressing that I just don't go, even though I hear it's good.

You just need to know how to think like a science fiction writer, and in eleven videos, Kris will show you how.

So much American science fiction is parochial — not as true now as it was years ago, but the assumption is one culture in the future, more or less like ours, and with the same ideals, the same notions of how to do things, just bigger and flashier technology.

Liu was just starting to sell at the time, but this unique and provocative novella was clearly considered too risky for every pro market out there: he wasn't yet a huge name, and though the science fiction magazines tend to be very open to newcomers, novella slots are few, and editors like to give them to big name authors.

''... the show's combination of accessible brainy competence and visionary, science fiction - like projections just seems to pack them in.»

Science fiction fans just love the idea of having what amounts to a portable lab - like the Star Trek medical tricorder:

Do not just throw out these letters — they'll just keep coming, like a science fiction monster.

Much in the same way something like The Matrix inspires adoration through its high concept, Axiom Verge's crazy science fiction logic is just wild enough to demand my attention.

Modern and historical warfare just don't catch my attention like full - on science fiction.

At first glance, it may seem like just another science fiction - infused adventure with tired tropes, but a closer look reveals some intriguing design decisions that you'll appreciate even more as the game wears on.

LHL I'd like to think that there's also a «science truth», not just a fiction — and that if you live in the present, the things we think of as fictions are absolutely possible, even imminent.

Just like science fiction, I deal with current concerns, such as ecology, hyper consumption, spirituality, violence, by imagining a futuristic world, synthesis of Mad Max and the Wonderland.

Like most everything else today, it's just more science fiction.

(Cambridge Analytica was employed by the Leave campaign during Brexit, has Steven Bannon on its board, just poached the CTO of the RNC, and hopes to win government contracts with the Trump administration; you can read science fiction scenarios of the implications of approaches like theirs.)