What if the future is as real as the past? Physicists have been suggesting as much since Einstein. It’s all just the space-time continuum. The film Arrival, written by Eric Heisserer and directed by Denis Villeneuve, is being marketed as an alien-contact adventure: creatures arrive in giant ovoid spaceships, and drama ensues, but it is a movie of philosophy as much as adventure. It's really a movie about time. Time, fate, and free will.
All Possible Views About Humanity's Future Are Wild
If humans will eventually spread out across the galaxy, then we are among the earliest living beings, with remarkable opportunities to shape the future
We are all living inside of an obscure sci-fi film from 1970
Somehow a film made 56 years ago named Colossus The Forbin Project predicted the world of today
After the Deluge: What Future for Climate Fiction? - Public Books
Even in a world remade, the past defines the present.
The line and the stream. — Ethan Marcotte
“Artificial intelligence is the future,” they tell me. The thing is, futures are tricky.
As UFOs go mainstream, the jury is out on what the existence of alien life might mean for religion
Steven Spielberg's new film “Disclosure Day” explores extraterrestrial life and its impact on religion. UFOs, now also called UAPs, are gaining mainstream attention.
the Long 90s are Over
How are we writing the future of humanity?
Consciousness spinning
The best sci-fi and fantasy books of 2023
It’s been a stellar year in speculative fiction
Icarus, or, the Future of Science
The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess: Where Do We Go From Here?
This is a long article, so I've broken it up into a series of posts, listed below. You can also read the full work as a PDF or EPUB.
To Make Sense of the Present, Brains May Predict the Future | Quanta Magazine
A controversial theory suggests that perception, motor control, memory and other brain functions all depend on comparisons between ongoing actual experiences and the brain’s modeled expectations.
Full Text Of The Grim Meathook Future Thing
I think the problem is that the future, maybe for the first time since WWII, lies on the far side of an event horizon for us, because there are so many futures possible. There’s the wetware future, the hardware future, the transhumanist future, the post-rationalist (aka fundamentalist) future.
What I Learned About the Future by Reading 100 Science Fiction Books, Part II
This is Part 2 of an experiment in science-fiction prototyping, in which I try to visualize the future by pulling together ideas from 100…
The present no longer lasts long enough to be a setting. All fiction is either science fiction or historical fiction. I've been saying this for long enough that even this statement itself is no longer true. The future doesn't last long enough either. All science fiction is now retrofuturism.
