Neuromancer Is Finally Getting Its Long-Awaited Adaptation
These days, if you’re an epic sci-fi story looking to be told, there’s only one destination: Apple TV+. From popular novels like Foundation and Silo to originals like For All …
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U.S. shoots for 1st lunar landing in 50 years, this time with private companies leading the way
A robotic lander built by a private company was bound for the moon on Monday in an attempt to make the first U.S. lunar soft landing in more than half …
Here’s a wild way for Democrats to try to stop Trump: Vote in Republican primaries
Troy Denning has made a living imagining fantastical plots as a prolific writer of science fiction with numerous Star Wars tomes under his belt. He’s now envisioning a real-life storyline …
Imagine If Joe Biden’s AI Executive Order Were Inspired by ‘The Terminator’
Science fiction, for decades, has been about predicting the future—and warning against it. Even as Star Trek envisioned the wonders of flip phones and iPads, Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash warned …
Patrick Stewart Boldly Explores His Own Final Frontier
I don’t know how many, and I don’t know who they are until a text stimulates them. There’s one text that keeps getting tossed in my direction, which is King …
What Isaac Asimov’s Robbie Teaches About AI and How Minds ‘Work’
In Isaac Asimov’s classic science fiction story “Robbie,” the Weston family owns a robot who serves as a nursemaid and companion for their precocious preteen daughter, Gloria. Gloria and the …
The World Is Toxic. Welcome to the Metabolic Era
Kim Kardashian’s newest range of products, launched in late 2022—post SKIMS shapewear, post SKKN facewear—is a menacing set of raw concrete forms for storing bathroom products: a gray tissue box, …
Give Every AI a Soul—or Else
What about cyber entities who operate below some arbitrary level of ability? We can demand that they be vouched for by some entity who is ranked higher, and who has …