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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How a teenage girl’s waking dream birthed what is (probably) the first science fiction novel – and in the process gave the world its most enduring image of technology gone wrong. This time we’re coming for the myth, the curse, the cliche that is...
Can the future of an entire civilisation be calculated like the behaviour of gas molecules? In the second of two episodes on Isaac Asimov, John Helmer and Ezri Carlebach turn from his robots to his other great franchise — the Foundation saga — and...