Sentences with phrase «science fiction and reality»

In a catalog essay on my recent paintings, Carmen Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties: Stories, wrote «Deborah Zlotsky's paintings are, at their essence, a convergence: of Renaissance images and pop art, of the past and present, of science fiction and reality, of physicality and illusion.»

But as this technology evolves at increased speed, the line between science fiction and reality gets thinner and thinner.

Not exact matches

The group, known as Building 8, currently has four simultaneous projects underway, spanning everything from cameras and augmented reality to science fiction - like brain scanning technology, Business Insider has learned.

I really like speculative science fiction, and the book is close enough to now to have some reality to it — it's about environmental disasters.

When it comes to technology and innovation, reality seems to be constantly playing catch - up to the visions of the world that are painted in science fiction narratives.

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.

It connected my interest in science fiction and time travel to reality.

While there are the science fiction - driven angles of AI, like robots, self - driving cars, Internet of Things, and augmented reality, there are also more practical applications that affect business owners every day, especially those working in the virtual customer service world of online retail.

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.

Perhaps the best argument against a super-intelligent agent creating the universe is that moderately - intelligent science fiction writers often dream up universes that are way cooler and often even «work» better than the reality we all experience.

The futuristic scenarios in technological communication which once were the stuff of science fiction are rapidly becoming present realities, and the broadcasters are just as quickly adapting them to their purposes.

Now, this is somewhat changing in 2000 +, due to advances in technology (hyperspeed capable missiles pose credible threat to aircraft carries; space bourne weapons platforms are somewhat closer to reality than science fiction) and economics (China finally industrialized; developed better economy; and developed, bought and stole enough technology to place it on a better level).

They were attempting to take something only seen in science fiction movies and make it reality.

Teleportation, the science - fiction fantasy of moving objects instantaneously through space from one location to another, has become reality — an achievement both more subtle and spectacular than many early news reports indicated.

It's the stuff of science fiction: robots that can hunt down and kill humans, powerful lasers that can destroy targets without leaving a trace, and a weapon that can supposedly knock you down without even touching you — all of these, and more, came one step closer to reality in 2008.

IT IS not every day that a piece of science fiction takes a step closer to nuts - and - bolts reality.

The world is speeding up, you may have noticed, and the rate at which it's speeding up is speeding up, and the natural human curiosity that science fiction was invented to meet is increasingly being met by reality.

The answer is they all wrote stories that involved a journey to the Moon, one of the oldest and most popular themes of the science fiction genre until 25 years ago, when it was crushed by the weight of reality and Neil Armstrong's foot.

Such claims are an obfuscating amalgam of theory and conjecture, reality and fantasy, nonfiction and science fiction.

For years, Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR)-- a view of the real world that has been «augmented» by layers of computer - generated content — have been the stuff of science fiction.

Perhaps one of the reasons why it has taken a science fiction film to speak so directly and truly about South Africa — and South African reality to make SF seem so real.

Through powerful imagery, stellar performances and a mind - bending, mysterious version of reality, the filmmakers have crafted a great piece of science fiction that will last for many years.

, 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.

The audaciousness of science fiction and the commercial nature of the action movie are realities that RoboCop proves itself to be aware of throughout, and also hypocritically revels in the freedoms they provide while critiquing their ills and inanities.

There are no «Matrix» visuals here — you might say that Fassbinder suggests his levels of reality and identity with mirrors — but conceptually it anticipates a genre of science fiction and visually it creates a near future out of modern architecture, gangster - movie fashions, futuristic bric - a-brac, and more glass and mirrors than a crystal palace.

The third act embraces the virtual reality aspect entirely, and changes from a science fiction film to a horror film.

Blu - ray extras include audio commentary by author Tim Colliver (Seaview: The Making of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea); the featurette Science Fiction: Fantasy to Reality; and an interview with Eden.

The Lawnmower Man: Collector's Edition (Blu - ray) Details: 1992, Scream Factory Rated: Not rated & R, violence, language The lowdown: Jeff Fahey and Pierce Brosnan star in this science fiction thriller about a scientist (Brosnan), obsessed with perfecting virtual reality software, who finds the perfect test subject in a slow - witted gardener (Fahey).

Yet the characters» lives are utterly defined and guided by science fiction elements (of the sort that could soon be science reality), and the kind of ethical questions implicitly explored are those of classic science fiction going back to Asimov and Wells, here told with a poignant humanism and thoughtfulness rarely found on the screen today.

Everything - the apes, the locations - had to feel genuine because we're exploring a story that's reality - based and not straight - ahead science fiction.»

He and cinematographer Eric Kress (Colossal) aren't in a showy mood, attempting to ground all of this science fiction - horror - melodrama craziness in a practical, tactile reality that's nowhere near as fantastical as the one manufactured by Schumacher for his version.

In the same vein as Black Panther's defiant blend of tradition and technological advancement, Ajantrik uses the temporal plasticity of science fiction to propose that what we designate as the «future» might be found in the histories and present - day realities of those who are excluded from mainstream narratives of progress (or decline).

In doing so, Black Panther gives blockbuster science fiction its new vocation: a grounded and inclusive reflection of reality that isn't closed off by mass spectacle, but instead — in the tradition of Afrofuturism — allows for radical reimaginings of both the past and the future.

Just a little over a decade ago, online learning for many educators fell into the realm of science fiction, or worse, snake oil.Visions of students accessing an array of courses on their computers, interacting with teachers over the Internet, and participating in virtual «field trips» seemed more fantasy than reality.

And we're not talking sleight of hand, we're talking about the kind of magic that Apple manufactures: the magic that happens when you watch science fiction turn into reality right in front of you.

It existed, yes, in science fiction novels and even movies; but, in reality, we knew that the technology was decades away.

Research and compile «25 greatest heroines of contemporary dystopian romance» or «30 amazing science fiction inventions that are now a reality.»

Commercial for Wood House This science - fiction tale plunges the reader into a future where reality and technology blend imperceptibly, and a teenage girl must race to save the world from a nano - revolution that a corporation calls «ReCreation Day.»

In case there are folks still confused as to what «AR» actually is, it stands for «augmented reality,» which is a fairly broad term for a merger between the digital world and real life (hopefully in a fun way, as opposed to a terrifying dystopian science fiction - y way).

While steampunk is an almost revisionist history of what we wish the olden days had been like, science fiction is the future that we can only hope for and strive to make into a reality.

But at Reality Calling, we like fantasy, science fiction, action / adventure, political thrillers, military thrillers, and even horror.

We blur the line between science and science fiction with Veronica Sicoe and Kate Gwynne, who respectively explore interstellar communication and storytelling through virtual reality.

As technology pushes forward, tales of science fiction — Martian colonies and deep - space travel come closer to reality.

Amazon made a struggling retail sector (bookstores) cool again by integrating technology and leveraging data, while showing that cashier-less stores are more reality than science fiction.

With characters that were grounded in reality, stories that channeled Cold War tensions, and a narrative influenced by popular science fiction, Lee created the Fantastic Four.

He is generally categorized as a science fiction writer, and his work, often featuring futuristic settings, speculative technology and mind - bending realities, for the most part slots into that genre.

Displays that appear right in front of your eyeballs is a popular trope in science fiction, and thanks to new developments in microsystems technology, those displays are one giant leap closer to becoming a reality.

This free sampler contains the first 6 chapters of Credence Foundation (A Science Fiction Novel) A detective tasked with solving the seemingly impossible murder of an influential scientist finds a clue that leads him to Credence, a corporation of the future that uses mass beliefs to change reality and send spaceships on the other side of the universe.Suspecting that the murderer had himself flushed in and out of the crime scene using Credence's technology, Detective Trumaine readies his trap.In a frantic chase through his mind, long - forgotten memories from a tragic past, as well as virtual environments, he will finally put together the missing pieces of the most unbelievable plan ever to affect mankind.It's a novel of about 74,000 words...

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Virtual reality, gaming geekery, and 80's pop culture combined to make this book an instant classic for science fiction fans.