Transportation | Futurecasting
Aviation emissions have risen by 70% since 2005 and as demand increases in rich and poorer countries, they’re forecast to increase by between 300% and 700% by 2050.
As the country seeks to establish itself as a space power, audiences are developing an appetite for the extraterrestrial on the big screen.
This is what happens when you fall for your Siri, Alexa, or Cortana powered by virtual imagery.
The Hollywood Reporter | Reviews
The alien invasion film was highly anticipated after the $700 million success of The Wandering Earth earlier this year, but it has been brought low by withering reviews and audience complaints.
Science Fiction | Futurecasting
We can hope that none of these visions come true, but in the meantime, let’s bask in the glory of Mike Winkelmann’s imagination.
A mysterious encounter between a man who claims to be from the future and the man that he claims is his former self.
The New York Times | Science Fiction
“The author of Dhalgren and dozens of other books “gives readers fiction that reflects and explores the social truths of our world.”
The Irish Times | Science Fiction
“Now science fiction, far from being this little persecuted genre that it was in the 1950s, has conquered the world.” -GRRM
Silicon Valley needs to transform our closets the way it transformed our desktops.
The Guardian | Science Fiction
The director’s underwater folly might have flopped on release in 1989 but in the years since, various new cuts have granted it many more lives.
Futurecasting | Science Fiction
It would seem that humanity is becoming more and more concerned with portents of human extinction.
There has been a significant advance in planning the construction of the Deep Space Gateway – a space station in orbit around the moon.
EU project creates robotic hands that can sense and fix damage without human intervention.
Rather than cast players in the role of astronaut, “Observation” inserts players into the circuits of the onboard AI.
Bill Hader’s masterful impressions meet deep fake tech.
Witness the beginning of the end of Hollywood as you’ve known it.
The Matrix | VR
The film that revolutionized science fiction and gave us our best look at the future of VR is back in theaters.
Rapid advances in digital technologies will ensure that misinformation arrives in unexpected formats and with varying levels of sophistication.
If human-animal hybrids become more like us than non-human animals, it could then be argued that it’s unethical to produce a hybrid simply for the purposes of extracting its organs.
The high-altitude balloons promise a cheap monitoring platform that could follow multiple cars and boats for extended periods.
In a next-generation prison, inmates are “corrected” over a few days by an A.I. linked to their consciousness.
The Hollywood Reporter | Immortality
By undergoing the latest in genetic & medical testing, the film & TV producer hopes to cheat death or dementia indefinitely.
A new report claims that jailed billionaire Jeffrey Epstein was working on turning himself into a transhuman superman.
By comparing plants with organisms with mental processes that look like our own, have we made it impossible to recognize a consciousness different to ours?
The research could eventually lead to new sources of organs for transplant, but ethical and technical hurdles need to be overcome.
The space-obsessed French couturier has pushed his avant-garde designs, with tremendous success, into houses and closets around the globe.
Study funded by Facebook aims to improve communication with paralyzed patients.
An investor in a VR startup discovers that the reality the company provides its customers isn’t just virtual.
Undone is a half-hour animated series that explores the elastic nature of reality through its central character Alma, a 28-year-old living in San Antonio, Texas.
Real humans, fake anti-gravity?
Penthouses in the sky, snow robots, and demon girls.
Wall Street Journal | Deep Fake
Startups and government agencies are researching ways to combat doctored images ahead of the 2020 election.
Repairing, repurposing or recycling satellites & “space junk” at a facility in Earth’s orbit could help build future spacecraft or exploration outposts.
Starz COO Jeffrey Hirsch addressed the cancellation at the TCA summer press tour and admitted that the show’s audience was “too male” to fit into its new female-focused strategy.
