Sentences with phrase «live in science fiction»

The home of the future doesn't just live in science fiction anymore.

Until these efforts succeed, we're forced to continue living in the science fiction parallel reality the government has created.

Firefly stars Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk have rejoined forces on Con Man, a new Indigogo - funded project about a struggling actor living in the science fiction convention world.

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However this idea may not simply be science fiction — «cosmic rays» could reveal that we are indeed living in a simulated universe.

Shortly thereafter, in 1992, just as Berners - Lee's World Wide Web had come to fruition, Neal Stephenson was inspired by the recent invention, which led to him publishing Snow Crash, a science - fiction novel that illustrated much of today's online life, including a virtual reality where people meet, do business, and play.

When one man who has disrupted the energy, automotive and space industries, and another who connected nearly 2 billion individuals in the same social network, make major moves in neuroscience, somehow it feels like science fiction is evolving into history, and that our lives are about to change in unprecedented ways.

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.

And it's not the stuff of science fiction; AI is already touching people's lives in ways unimaginable even five years ago.

Please remove candidates wearing their cults, myths and science fiction on their sleeves OUT of the political process or send them to live in Iran with ilk of their kind.

But his less - known work, a trilogy of science fiction novels, contains some of his most profound, thrilling and decidedly adult notions of the universe we live in, the reality - shifting nature of grace and the Creator who rules over it all.

It follows in the footsteps of the very best of the science fiction genre in forcing us to ask uncomfortable questions about the world we live in.

But it was customary to pay a penny a word, half a cent a word, and so science fiction writers, in order to make a living, had to go extremely fast.

I have to admit that before living in the US and before having a kid, packed school lunches were science fiction for me and I would have thought this study was right.

Despite recent headlines saying we don't live in a simulation, the answer to a question that's more science fiction than science remains far out of reach

The idea that we live in a simulation is just science fiction, isn't it?

Let everything but the truth be «Fantasy,» I say, and let the truth — the searing, unmanageable, discombobulating truth of the lives we have invented for ourselves in a world it took artists to imagine — be Science Fiction.

This pushed the possibility of extracting at least part of the «code of life» back to the time of the dinosaurs — a case of science catching up with the fiction it had spawned in Jurassic Park.

The concept of synthesizing life has been around for quite a while in scientific — and science fiction — literature, but only in the past 5 years have rapid advances in DNA synthesis techniques allowed the field to crystallize.

It might sound like science fiction that it was possible to see separate components of internal thoughts of the participants as they were lying in the MRI with their eyes closed and recalling their personal lives.

Living with his parents and 6 - year - old sister in Lafayette, California, a scenic town east of San Francisco, he was a science fiction fan who aspired to explore the galaxy and devoured Isaac Asimov books.

And since NASA has promised the Titan team that it is next in line for an outer - planet mission, a Europa lander that could plumb the moon's depths and truly seek out alien life there remains in the realm of science fiction.

The power to control living things and objects from a distance is a popular supernatural talent in science fiction and fantasy: Witches fling spells at foes and X-Men send chairs and tables flying with telekinesis, for example.

«This is science fiction coming to life,» says Daniel Weiss at the University of Vermont College of Medicine in Burlington, who works on lung regeneration.

His 1957 science fiction novel, The Black Cloud, envisioned a living, intelligent dust cloud in space; it foreshadowed his later support of panspermia, the theory that life evolves in space and spreads throughout the universe.

«There's a long tradition of science fiction that deals with language and communication,» Chiang told Live Science in anscience fiction that deals with language and communication,» Chiang told Live Science in anScience in an email.

Many science - fiction writers have proposed life - forms that use alternate elemental building blocks, often silicon instead of carbon, but this marks the first known case in a real organism.

Shannon Johnson uses robots to explore deep - sea hydrothermal vents, where science - fiction - worthy animals live in hot, acidic water and munch on bacteria that can survive in space.

I think James Gunn, the author of the 1972 science fiction novel «The Listeners» about radio astronomy and the search for other life in the universe, said it well: «It may be that there is no one out there or if there is someone out there he will never speak to us or we to him, but our listening is an act of faith akin to living itself.

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«Tau Ceti has been a popular destination for science fiction writers and everyone's imagination as somewhere there could possibly be life, but even though life around Tau Ceti may be unlikely, it should not be seen as a letdown, but should invigorate our minds to consider what exotic planets likely orbit the star, and the new and unusual planets that may exist in this vast universe,» says Pagano.

W. M. Keck Observatory Director Hilton Lewis was live on Hawaii Public Radio's «The Conversation» where he and host Chris Vandercook explored the intersection where science fiction meets science fact - a dimension in Dr. Thorne's Keck Observatory Astronomy Talk.

LA JOLLA — The ability to switch out one gene for another in a line of living stem cells has only crossed from science fiction to reality within this decade.

These hypothesized life forms are often depicted in science fiction movies, TV shows and books.

Science fiction writer and proto - astrobiologist Arthur C. Clarke famously wrote decades ago that the first life found beyond Earth would most likely be in the oceans of Europa.

Used in traditional Chinese medicine for centuries, the cordyceps origin story reads like a science fiction novel: it begins its life as an endoparasitoid, meaning it grows as a parasite, typically on insects.

In this science fiction thriller, David Whitman (William Hurt) is a chemist who lost his wife and child in a freak accident and is trying to rebuild his life on his owIn this science fiction thriller, David Whitman (William Hurt) is a chemist who lost his wife and child in a freak accident and is trying to rebuild his life on his owin a freak accident and is trying to rebuild his life on his own.

But John's command does push the film further into the old science - fiction, doomsday territory of films like Five; The World, the Flesh and the Devil; and Night of the Living Dead, where the only way in the world the races could commingle was at its end.

Released in theatres on August 24,1966, «Fantastic Voyage» was not only a film of authentic wonder but a science fiction masterpiece with amazing special effects... the team enters the body of a man where they see first hand the oceans of life within the human body that contains the «corpuscles», «the heart», «the lungs» and other features of the human body through which the crew move through are exquisitely designed in great detail with artistic quality.

The world of Wakanda, a fictional African nation that is the world's most technologically advanced but also quite possibly the world's most secretive, is a bright, gleaming utopia for its citizens, who live in a society where easy access to the metal vibranium means the kind of post-scarcity society that science fiction writers have been dreaming about for decades.

Plus, it's not set in the Depression, so Annie's fairy tale transplanting to the world of opulence isn't as pronounced, though the way Stacks lives does border on science fiction in terms of his technological toys.

Both David Tennant and Mark Gatiss appeared in The Quartermass Experiment, a live 2005 re-staging of the 1953 science - fiction classic, so they did have experience on the acting side of live science fiction.

Realism and science fiction clash in a chilling portrayal of the life - prolonging advancements looming in the not too distant future.

, in which Espinosa says he wanted to make «science reality» rather than «science fiction,» filming a scenario that made some scientific sense and portraying the realistic reactions of characters living through a crisis.

It's dirty and grimy the way Star Wars should look — part of the original trilogy's appeal was that it wasn't a polished, shiny science fiction vision, it was scummy and kind of gross and kicked off an era of lived - in production design for these types of films.

Each game puts you in control of a modern character who, through wacky science fiction nonsense that is never really explained, is able to tap into his «genetic memories» and relive the lives of his ancestors.

Scott's adaptation of Andy Weir's novel, about an astronaut (Matt Damon) who's stranded on the red planet and must fend for himself until remote help can arrive, is science fiction that emphasizes the science, depicting in detail the practical problems facing Damon's interstellar traveler, and the ingenious systematic solutions he devises to his life - threatening dilemmas.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

In the realm of science - fiction, exploring our own socio - political environment through the lens of a foreign or futuristic society is commonplace; however, exploring merely human nature and philosophical questions of life is less common, at least as a stand - alone theme.

Artificial intelligence seems to be a popular topic in science fiction these days — between giving life to a robot in Neill Blomkamp's Chappie, to extending life in Wally Pfister's Transcendence.

Imitation of Life (published on Parallax View here) A comprehensive interpretation of Don Siegel's Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the masterpiece of the classic era in science — fiction cinema By Robert C. Cumbow plus