Science fiction has an uncanny ability to predict the future. In its pages or on the screen, sci-fi, from the time of Jules Verne onward, has envisioned technological advances, societal ...

As AI and autonomous warfare advance, our future mirrors a collision of Minority Report, Star Wars, The Fifth Element, and Idiocracy—demanding innovation with safeguards and clear global engagement.

Science fiction writer Neal Stephenson predicted the metaverse, wearable tech and artificial intelligence long before those technologies arrived. What does he think of it all now? Host Megan McArdle ...

I think any technical career starts with curiosity and imagination. When I was young, I read a lot of books on scientists and inventors and on various scientific topics, but what really got me ...

Set in late-21st-century Australia, this novel (published in Australia in 2022 but out now more widely) follows Tao-Yi in a world where most people spend their lives in an immersive virtual reality ...

Science fiction is unlike any other genre. These grand tales of technological advancement, space exploration, and speculative futures rarely fail to be entertaining, but they also have a remarkable ...

Science fiction movies have often been dismissed as pure fantasy, filled with impossible technology, distant planets, and imaginary futures. Yet the genre has always been about much more than ...

Science fiction has a remarkable history of predicting the future. Long before many inventions existed, writers, filmmakers, and television creators imagined technologies that seemed impossible at the ...

Pan Haitian, born in 1975 in Fujian province, graduated from Tsinghua University's Department of Architecture and is regarded ...

Consider the alternative futures presented in Black Mirror, a dystopic anthology television series, where each episode explores the morbid but human-centric realities of technology. Season 7, Episode ...