It takes a dreamer to think outside the box, imagine something impossible, and conjure up uses for an object previously undreamt. Artists and authors have created unbelievable situations in their ...

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In a form of science fictional ars poetica, Arthur C. Clarke exposed three laws in 1973, meant to explicit his views about how science might nourish the way future(s) can be imagined. The third ...

Science fiction has long imagined a world where our brains interact with machines to restore and augment our abilities—think ...

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More than 50 years before ChatGPT could tell you what to cook for dinner, a 1968 science fiction film was shaping how we think about machines that talk to us. In 2001: A Space Odyssey, a Jupiter-bound ...

For the past decade, a group called the Future of Life Institute has been campaigning for human welfare in public conversations around nuclear weapons, climate change, artificial intelligence and ...