Sentences with phrase «of 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.

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?

Like any of number of fictional futures, from Metropolis to Altered Carbon, it is a society where the wealthy in live in glistening towers in the clouds, surrounded by technologies of luxury and convenience, looking down on an underclass that can not afford basic necessities.

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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.

In a fascinating post on The Conversation blog, Maynard makes an argument that won't surprise anyone who has read any fictional account of human's interplanetary future — colonizing other planets probably won't bring out the better angels of our nature, and any attempt to put people on Mars will require overcoming serious social and political problems, such as:

Expect more brews in the future from what the trio is calling the Hanson Brothers Beer Company (not to be confused with the fictional Hanson Brothers of Slapshot fame).

The first thing many of us think about when it comes to the future relationship between artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity is Skynet — the fictional neural net - based group mind from the «Terminator» movie franchise.

Santorum is a fictional character carved from our nightmares of how a future apocolypse will start.

Science - fictional adventures in an imaginary future, among extraterrestrial intelligences or future versions of humanity, are — obviously — not accurate predictions of our future, but have more truth in them than to suppose our current social and biological order is unchanging.

In the first part of this new fictional series, Nick Page discovers what life will be like in the future if the church continues to die.

In fact, in recent years it has become difficult to find fictional presentations of the near future that do not feature decaying cities, a ruthless ruling class, economic collapse, and impending ecological catastrophe.

All this and more is on the agenda of a fictional conference set 25 years in the future

A unique blend of satires, vignettes, fictional book reviews, science articles and journalism, Nature Futures offers an eclectic mix of ideas and attitudes about the future.

Series creator Hideo Kojima has been making Metal Gear games with publisher Konami for close to 30 years, creating sequels and prequels that bounce back and forth between the future and the past of a labyrinthine fictional world of spies, cold wars and walking nuclear weapons bearing the series» name.

That leaves a couple of big roles, notably the fictional Henry Sturges, a vampire who saves Lincoln at 16 (John Ford wouldn't recognize this Young Mr. Lincoln) and then becomes the future president's vampire - killing mentor.

Much like The LEGO Movie leveraged LEGO's partnerships with established fictional universes to create a juggernaut of animated film, LEGO Dimensions will make use of franchises like Batman, Lord of the Rings, The Wizard of Oz, and even Back to the Future -LRB-!!)

Set in near - future Japan, «Isle of Dogs» follows a group of canines who've been exiled by the villainous mayor of fictional Megasaki City, whose anti-dog agenda is rooted in centuries of family history.

Detailing director Wes Anderson's upcoming stop - motion film Isle of Dogs, Jenny Brewer explains that it's «set in Japan, 20 years in the future, in the fictional city of Megasaki, where the corrupt mayor Kobayashi — a cat lover with a vendetta for all dogs — exiles all the furry fiends to Trash Island, the city's rubbish dump.

Directed by Sarah Gavron and written by Abi Morgan, «Suffragette» makes it look like because one (fictional) woman (Carey Mulligan) testified about her hardships to future Secretary of State for War Lloyd George, the suffrage movement experienced a depth - charge of commitment.

Isle of Dogs takes place in the not - to - distant future fictional Japanese city of Megasaki.

(Grade: A --RRB-: This entertaining, extraordinarily thought - provoking Northwest documentary uses special effects, animation and a fictional proverb starring Oscar - winner Marlee Matlin to explain how the science of quantum physics might be creating a whole new paradigm for man's future in the cosmos.

When an old and dangerous adversary appears on Wakanda's radar — carrying a stolen cache of vibranium, the fictional metal that is the source of the nation's wealth — the new monarch springs into action, hoping to bring him to justice while securing Wakanda's future and continued secrecy.

Set in the near - ish future of 2030, Isle of Dogs takes place in the fictional Japanese city of Megasaki, where «dog flu» has run rampant, turning beloved pets into public health risks thanks to «snout fever» and increasingly aggressive behavior.

Set from 1958 to 1964, this fictional story based around true characters and events revolves around the relationship that develops between an aspiring actress, Marla (Lily Collins) and her driver / future finance expert, Frank (Alden Ehrenreich)-- both in the employ of reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes (writer, director Warren Beatty).

Co-written by Anderson, Roman Coppola, Jason Schwartzman and Kunichi Nomura, Isle of Dogs is set in the fictional Japanese city of Megasaki about 20 years into the future.

As with most of Spielberg's sci - fi work like A.I. and Minority Report, the display of technological wizardry in the fictional near - future fascinates the eye.

In the battle for hearts and minds, though, the fictional effort in Won't Back Down may be more important to the future of the parent trigger than its track record on the ground.

This vision is not merely a fictional utopian outlook; it is a future that is entirely achievable, a future in which water is recognized and managed as the fundamental resource that supports all aspects of sustainable development.

The writing duo sat down with CBR News in the fictional yacht that exists in all our minds to talk about their writing, the future of «Amelia Cole,» the rise of digital comics and more!

Readers follow the fictional «Time Traveler» that H. G. Wells sends into future centuries; track the gyrations of time - spanning thought that Borges unfolds in his labyrinthine tales; ponder the temporal cause - effect paradoxes that Bertrand Russell surmounts; and puzzle over the reversibility of time in the physics with which Einstein revolutionized science.

In The Tumor, bestselling author John Grisham provides readers with a fictional account of how a real new medical technology could revolutionize the future of medicine by doing just that — curing with sound.

For sake of example, assume 0 interest rates and no cost of carry, and that I bought a futures contract on Jan 1 with Feb 1 expiry for $ 100, on some fictional commodity.

Could this mean a future devoid of fictional drug references in videogames,»cause as much as I support overzealous censorship gettin» bitch slapped, I'd really miss the silly names developers come up with to circumvent those conservative ratings boards.

Battles include the Spanish Armada conquest inPlayers can challenge others from all over the world via multiplayer battles using a wireless connection as they command their worms through clashes that take place in famous battles of the past, as well as fictional fights of the future.

During this console generation, the superhero that we affectionately call the Caped Crusader has cemented himself as gaming's favourite fictional crime fighter, thanks to the release and resulting popularity of two incredible games from Rocksteady that set the bar for future genre efforts.

In a Game Rant interview, the Zelda franchise «apprentice», Hidemaro Fujibayashi, confirms that the new game is set in the «far future» of its fictional world:

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is First - person Shooter rooted in a fictional, but ultra realistic near - future conflict of mostly American forces with those of the Russian Federation around the globe.

Splatoon 2's superstars Pearl And Marina are getting their own amiibo in the not - too - distant future, with the two members of fictional band Off the...

The hacker heroes of Watch Dogs 2, Quadrilateral Cowboy, and Else Heart.Break -LRB--RRB- would all feel at home in glowing near - future cities even though their games are set in the modern day, the 1980s, and a fictional town in Sweden respectively.

Unlike other modern war games set in near - future Middle - East environments (Call of Duty: Modern Warfare) or fictional places like «Zekistan» (Full Spectrum Warrior), MOH clearly communicates its contemporary setting.

Set in the near future during the fictional First Russo - American War between the United States and Russian Federation, players take on the role of Private Preston Marlowe.

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.

In an upcoming Golden Joysticks Halo 5 special (according to GamesRadar), 343's Frank O'Connor and Bonnie Ross talk about the future of the series, including talk of a «fictional foundation» for the next 20 years.

Taking its title from the name of a fictional, post-iPhone device at the centre of Gary Shteyngart's 2010 near - future novel Super Sad True Love Story, Äppärät is concerned with labor, play and the uncertain zone between the two; with the extension of the body, and the self, through technologies ancient and contemporary; with things (to borrow Martin Heidegger's formulation) «present - at» and «ready - to» hand; with compulsion and with death Äppärät begins with Jessie Flood - Paddock's Just Loom (2015), a wall painting - cum - sculpture based on an illustration of a worker operating a loom from Denis Diderot's Encyclopédie (1751 - 72), one of the first attempts to record and systematize all human knowledge in published form.

Among Public Movement's actions in the past and in the future: manifestations of presence, fictional acts of hatred, new folk dances, synchronised procedures of movement, spectacles, marches, inventing and reenacting moments in the life of individuals, communities, social institutions, peoples, states, and of humanity.

The Brooklyn - based artist Phillip Birch is as nervous about our technological future as the next guy, and he's come up with a particularly effective way of capturing that anxiety in a recent body of work based on a fictional Apple - like company called Master Dynamic and their signature product, Frontier.

The less than reliable curatorial voice from Powhida's future proposes an authoritative account of our present and near future through institutional forms — wall texts, videos, an exhibition catalogue, as well as fictional works of art, speculative drawings, and research - based diagrams, that point to the ways exhibitions shape and reflect histories.

It will then feature Ira Lombardia's foray of a fictional character into the catalogue of dOCUMENT (13) and a new commission from Cristina De Middel will reconstruct the history and perceive the future of the Liverpool Biennial.

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 Future of Music, artist Greg Barth introduces us to fictional character Carré Bleu, a «world - famous» music producer who invented many of the sounds we know today while modulating «time, space, and gravity.»