Tech companies are claiming machines more intelligent than us and capable of having their own agendas are just around the ...

Science fiction (SF) influences everything in this day and age, from the design of everyday artifacts to how we—including the current crop of 50-something Silicon Valley billionaires—work. And that’s ...

Thonotosassa, FL / / December 27, 2025 / Sam Toney Popular science fiction has long shaped public understanding of scientific possibility, yet studies suggest that many widely recognized sci-fi ...

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Novlanguage in French, translated from English "Newspeak" is the official language of the country Oceania in which George Orwell's science fiction work 1984 published in 1949 takes place. This ...

Science fiction allows artists to speculate about the future through imaginative and technical concepts. But so often the prevailing vision of that future in popular culture tends toward the dystopian ...

Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in the May 10, 1980 issue of America as “Science Fiction and Religion.” Science fiction and religion walking—or jetting—hand in hand? Shades of the ...

Will Slocombe has consulted on projects for Dstl, but does not receive research funding from any organisation working in this area. Military planning is a complicated endeavour, calling upon experts ...