Sentences with phrase «using science fiction»
He's a science fiction author and for the last decade has been using science fiction, with good science, to understand what science will be doing to people.
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Like the 35 - year - old writer - director's previous movies — District 9 (2009) and Elysium (2013)-- his new work combines a realistically dingy, D.I.Y. look with cutting - edge visual effects and a smart, savvy sense of using science fiction to get at bigger issues.
Chris, I guess my «ire» was because I felt like this movie was transparent in its attempt to push my buttons by using science fiction touchstones from my youth.
He also used science fiction and children's stories as literary bridges to explore age - old questions about sin, forgiveness, and reconciliation with God.
Like other Willis novels, this book uses a science fiction premise to season a screwball comedy.
Comparing it to poetry seems absurd — after this, this is about a man who uses science fiction technology to «relive» the antics of his assassin ancestor 500 years earlier — but this isn't your regular action movie.
Like that film, Annihilation uses the science fiction genre to probe some of the deeper recesses of the human condition, although it is not quite so philosophically attuned or thematically rich.
Marketed as an intelligent rumination about artificial intelligence, Ex Machina actually carries a mean exploitation streak: it uses science fiction as a lure for nerds, but halfway through the film suddenly switches sides to explore a few older and darker issues.
But Black Panther, yet another volume in the interconnected Marvel universe of comic book movies, uses science fiction to reveal something a bit more complex.
Alex Garland's debut carries a mean exploitation streak, and uses a science fiction threat as a lure to explore a few older and darker issues.
Between the ASCII art and the way it uses its science fiction setting to push the genre's fondness for procedurally generated loot in a new direction, Cogmind is geared toward old school Roguelike obsessives, not casual players, but we're good with that.
Interplanetary exploration, alien life, and living on the moon are among the themes obsessing artists who use science fiction to comment on matters closer to home Read More
ABOUT SAYA WOOLFALK Saya Woolfalk (Japan, 1979) is a New York based artist who uses science fiction and fantasy to re-imagine the world in multiple dimensions.
Saya Woolfalk (Japan, 1979) is a New York based artist who uses science fiction and fantasy to re-imagine the world in multiple dimensions.
Woolfalk uses science fiction and fantasy to reimagine the world in multiple dimensions.
Saya Woolfalk is a New York - based artist who uses science fiction and fantasy to re-imagine the world in multiple dimensions.
Like amanze, examining the revolutionary and utopian possibilities of cultural hybridity, Saya Woolfalk uses science fiction and fantasy to re-imagine the world in multiple dimensions.
Ann Lislegaard (b. 1962) uses science fiction as a starting point for video and sound installations that explore surreal and alternative realms, where light interacts with space, time is unregulated, and rigid architectural constructs distort and become fluid structures.
Saya Woolfalk is a New York based artist who uses science fiction and fantasy to re-imagine the world in multiple dimensions.
Hearkening back to the Asimov quote about any sufficiently advanced technology being indistinguishable from magic, the story neatly uses science fiction to spin a classic gods and monsters epic.
Not exact matches
Fortune decided to take a look at the 10 highest - grossing science - fiction movies of all time, using data from Box Office Mojo and adjusting for inflation.
Voice interfaces won't replace screens (people like to use their eyes and fingers), but we will be interacting with computers in ways predicted in science - fiction novels, he says.
Aldous Huxley and other science fiction writers imagined that atheistic societies would use human corpses as fertiliser, but they misunderstood the human psyche.
«Science fiction fulfills many of the same needs for wonder and awe that religion used to fill, but within the context of a more intellectualized, scientific framework.
A science fiction writer is not careful with language, usually uses quite simple language.
«It would be lamentable for Labour to use this tired old science fiction as an excuse not to vote for the programme it devised in government and has continued to support in opposition.»
«I don't really think growing cells in space for clinical use on Earth is science fiction,» he says.
Using imaging technology that was science fiction in the 1970s — you know it as Photoshop — she coaxed much finer detail from the original (three black - and - white images through different filters) and processed the color to a more realistic hue.
The idea that our universe — everything we can observe, including the laws of physics that shape it — is just one among a vast ensemble may seem the stuff of science fiction, but cosmologists build multiverse models using a theory called inflation.
If the server decides that there are objects with geographic coordinates that fall within the camera's field of view, it superimposes these objects on the picture from the phone camera, in a fashion similar to the way the director of a science fiction movie might use special effects to add a spacecraft to a filmed scene.
«We have gotten a much sharper view of the brain's electrophysiological activity» using techniques once relegated to science fiction.
DISCOVER Fiction: In the post-economic future, big - ticket science is dead and amateurs hunt aliens using gear scored cheap on eBay.
Ironically, Lewis's skepticism is inspired in part by the science fiction of Isaac Asimov, whose Foundation novels center on researchers who use advanced social science to predict the future, based on the behavior of large groups.
«I'm sorry to disappoint science fiction fans, but if information is preserved, there is no possibility of using black holes to travel to other universes.
Johnson channels science fiction and people's worries to help chart the future of microprocessors and the technologies that use them
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.
Although it's a far cry from the exosuits of science fiction, researchers have developed a robotic exoskeleton that can help stroke victims regain use of their legs.
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.
Now, Stanford is using NASA's vast video archives to venture into the realm of science fiction, and we've got the first look at his latest space - age music video.
No, this isn't science fiction, like using one of Dr. McCoy's futuristic devices from Star Trek to heal the injured Captain Kirk.
That may sound like science fiction, but Gautam says it's not that far off: he thinks some of these gene therapies could be in use within a decade.
In fact, the hole might be used to create an analogue to a time machine and cause all the contradictions familiar to aficionados of science - fiction.
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.
The actual story for Rampage is cheerfully dim - witted and attempts to use half - baked science fiction concepts (ergo «genetic editing») to explain the cause behind the film's raging, mutating, giant behemoths.
Together they've made «Insurgent» into less of a youthful romance and more of an action - heavy science fiction story, the kind of rat - a-tat tale that used to star grown - ups before teens ruled the box office.
The slow, strange rhythm is very unsettling and takes some getting used to, but it's an altogether amazing, sunsuous film; it even has an element of science fiction and some creepy musical numbers, and the soundtrack is as original and peculiar as the imagery.
Like all great science fiction, MGS uses technology — even on a metanarrative level, since this is a story that only really could be told through a technological medium like video games — to ask us big, moral questions.
In fact, the only real science fiction in the film is used to keep the characters locked in an apartment from fear of alien invasion.
Ingeniously using his low budget to address his ambitions, Johnson has directed, co-written (and starred in) a unique science - fiction film.
As the writer of such science fiction features as «Never Let Me Go,» «Ex-Machina» and, now, «Annihilation,» Alex Garland — like many others — uses the genre to comment on us and our place in the universe.