Revisiting Gattaca at this time is important precisely because it coincides with the emergence of new genetic technologies that are making a then - futuristic vision put forth two decades ago more a matter of
science than fiction.
Thanks to this new interpretation, the existence of these objects could be closer to
science than fiction.
Not exact matches
CES, formerly known as the Consumer Electronics Show, draws more
than 180,000 people and 4,000 companies, all of whom are eager to know: Will this be the year [fill - in - the - blank technology] finally makes the leap from
science fiction to something people can buy, and might actually want to?
Isaac Asimov, a legend in the
science fiction genre, authored more
than 500 books.
The new $ 200 Fitbit Versa looks a lot more like an Apple Watch, with a brighter, curvier design
than the chunky,
science fiction inspired $ 300 Ionic model released last year.
In an unsurprising surprise, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk made good on his Friday promise and debuted the first official footage of Falcon Heavy's inaugural flight, pieced together by none other
than the co-creators of the
science fiction show Westworld.
In 2018, rapidly developing technology is allowing organizations to understand their customers in ways that seem more like
science fiction than traditional sales and marketing.
Because
science has kind of proven or talked about all those things you were just asking... maybe pick up a book other
than a work of
fiction and learn something that's real and tangible.
The cloistered world of these thoroughly pre-Vatican II nuns, with their rigid rules, harshly penitential disciplines, and permanent, world - denying vows, must seem more alien to contemporary readers
than the futuristic realms of most
science fiction novels.
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.
If this is correct, the strange creatures of
science fiction movies, with two arms and two legs and a head, are far more like us
than anything we are really likely to meet «out there».
It is more creative
than science fiction, the love stories are more intense
than romance novels, and the Bible, when rightly understood, is more colorful
than a comic book.
These problems are of such magnitudes and complexity that the quality of the future of our planetary existence now confronts us as something more
than just a theoretical or imaginative issue first detailed for us by the writers of
science fiction.
It will be objected that this explanation is closer to
science fiction than to
science.
Website blacklists, storage of all your emails by intelligence services and routine monitoring of your internet connection may sound like something from a
science fiction novel — or an authoritarian regime — but the truth may be stranger
than fiction for Britain in 2012.
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).
Genres, rather
than books:
science fiction has never appealed; pastel - covered chick lit, whose promise of escapism rapidly becomes irritation.
ANOTHER LOOKING GLASS In
science fiction movies like Stargate and Contact, wormholes connect distant points in the universe, allowing people to travel from one spot to another in far less time
than the hundreds or millions of years required to make the trip at the speed of light, the greatest conventional velocity.
Any
science fiction aficionado has seen it all before: beaming through walls, riding in starships that move faster
than light, or traveling instantly to distant places in space and time.
WORLD building is at the heart of great
science fiction, but it can be tricky at less
than book length.
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.
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
As Americans marvel over Alien and Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Voyager 1 beams back pictures stranger
than science fiction.
The thing with
science fiction that's different
than other genres is that it's always about the idea.
More important
than any piece of scientific research is the collection of fearsome
science -
fiction scenarios that comprise its implications.
Once considered the stuff of
science fiction, fully reusable rocketry is now closer to reality
than ever before
But we can surely all agree that for decades the man has been writing
fiction about
science, and that his visions of the dangers of as - yet - uninvented, or only - just - invented technologies have influenced the way we think more
than those of any other living novelist.
There might be purists who'd argue that what Crichton writes are better classified as techno - thrillers
than works of
science fiction, because drawing petty distinctions is what being a purist is all about.
One view, subscribed to by the towering French figure of Jules Gabriel Verne, a man with a better claim to being the Father of
Science Fiction than anyone else, was that the genre should consider itself almost a legitimate field of science proper, or at least should try to hold itself to an analogous code of
Science Fiction than anyone else, was that the genre should consider itself almost a legitimate field of
science proper, or at least should try to hold itself to an analogous code of
science proper, or at least should try to hold itself to an analogous code of rigor.
That is a far likelier scenario
than the portrayal of aliens in most
science fiction films.
But triumphs in the field of AI are bringing to the fore questions that, until recently, seemed better left to
science fiction than to
science: How will we ensure that the rise of the machines is entirely under human control?
Similarly, if a
science -
fiction writer has something he wants to say about the interactions between some intelligent extraterrestrials and our present human race, he often finds it necessary to pretend that some means of faster -
than - light travel can be found (tachyon transmissions, black - hole transit, «warp drive», or whatever), and Einstein be hanged.
«After BitTorrent, the effect of release lag on
science -
fiction and action movies is much greater
than it is for other genres,» Danaher says.
Ballard goes the furthest and, quoting from his earlier writing, says: «
Science fiction, far from being an unimportant minor offshoot, in fact represents the main literary tradition of the 20th century... The main «fact» of the 20th century is the concept of the unlimited future... All literatures other than science fiction are doomed to irrel
Science fiction, far from being an unimportant minor offshoot, in fact represents the main literary tradition of the 20th century... The main «fact» of the 20th century is the concept of the unlimited future... All literatures other
than science fiction are doomed to irrel
science fiction are doomed to irrelevance.
For more
than a half - century, NASA has made the stuff of
science fiction into reality.
Could this fading star be the first evidence that other cosmic cultures were more
than science fiction?
It may sound like
science fiction, but this scenario may be closer
than you think.
Targeting conclusions that are closer to
fiction than science, both Fine and Jordan - Young highlight exaggerations, unreplicated claims, and other silliness from research on neurological differences between the human sexes.
This piece of audio forensics was
science fiction when it appeared in the movie The Conversation more
than three decades ago.
As far as certain death in a
science fiction plot line goes, being ejected into the vacuum of space is more
than a pretty sure thing.
The notion is more
than science fiction.
Governments agree they should focus most on cutting greenhouse gas emissions under the 2015 Paris agreement rather
than on
science -
fiction - like short - cuts to limit temperatures blamed for causing more heatwaves, floods and rising sea levels.
McGrath, the Butler University professor who studies religion and
science fiction, said Smith's cosmology has to be understood through the prism of his times, when astronomers, armed with ever bigger telescopes, explored deeper into the solar system
than they ever had before.
Not the American
science fiction writer whose novels spawned hit films such as Blade Runner and Total Recall — he died more
than 20 years ago — but a state - of - the - art robot named after the author.
His
science fiction was more realistic
than most and the movies 2001 and 2010 popularized the vision of space travel tremendously.
During a keynote speech on day two, cosmologist and astrophysicist Martin Rees said he often tells students it is better to read first - rate
science fiction than second - rate
science.
Although the parallels with
science fiction are obvious, the object — designated 1I / 2017 U1 («Oumuamua)-- is quite a bit smaller
than Rama's fictional 34 - mile (55 - kilometer) long cylindrical mass and (probably) not an alien starship.
It was standing room only Friday night at the Mauna Lani Bay Hotel's Hale Hoaloha Pavilion; more
than 750 attendees came to enjoy a behind - the - scenes peek at Interstellar and an in - depth look at how Dr. Thorne assisted Hollywood in turning
science fact into
science fiction.
FIXED: The
Science /
Fiction of Human Enhancement takes a close look at the drive to be «better
than human» and the radical technological innovations that may take us there.
More polished
than his debut feature Another Earth, Cahill and his brand of humanist
science fiction are destined to appeal most to like - minded souls.