TECH
IMAGINARIUM
How Science Fiction Made the Modern World
Since its birth a century ago, this fascinating genre has been turning science fact into fictions that have captured the imagination of the world. John Helmer and Ezri Carlebach explore how these stories have, in turn, inspired developments in technology that shape all our lives today.
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Schools, universities and training departments took shape in the age of mass printing initiated by Guttenberg and others in the Sixteenth Century CE. Jeff Jarvis, In The Gutenberg Parenthesis (2023), argues that this development opened a parenthesis (or bracket) which closed with the rapid...
Nobody is born into the world already able to design a brochure, cut a dress, light a photoshoot or shred on the guitar. All of it has to be learned. The question this episode asks is how, and whether the answer has anything to...