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I ENVY ’70S KIDS, pressing their faces to the screen as John Williams’s Star Wars theme plays loudly, yellow text moving obliquely toward the edge of the galaxy. I envy ’70s kids, trying to get closer ...

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.

When I was a child, I used to dream while watching manga and anime.Making video calls on a wristwatch.Talking to foreigners ...

Science fiction has long shaped how we imagine artificial intelligence — as either humanity’s destroyer or its savior. The real future probably lands somewhere in between. The central question isn’t ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

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 ...

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 ...

It takes true dreamers to make dreams happen. In the case of the Future Fiction Workshop held near Chongqing, China in June 2024, those were the intrepid Italian editor Francesco Verso and Fan Zhang, ...

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 ...