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more about #future more comments → Chip Skylark of Space: Sounds like Anthony Horowitz ripped off Ursula Le Guin's THE LATHE OF HEAVEN. George Orr, the character in that book has what he's called 'effectiv... more » braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.: Also, though. In The Dead Zone, he DOES manage to avert the apocalyptic visions he sees with Greg Stilson. I didn't really watch the TV show, but m... more » Michael_GR: Blake's 7 seems to to have predicted the future of case modding. more » Pope John Peeps II: UGh. man. Seeing that Heroes picture just reminds me of how pure and undiluted the absolute JOY of watching Heroes S1 was. Does anyone really remember... more » Space2099: In Flash Forward it's hard to believe that everyone that saw a future they didn't like wouldn't actively avoid the location of their Flash Forward, pa... more » Bill-Lee: What about Dune? Paul Atreides seems to feel that the future is mutable and changeable until someone sees it. Seeing turns the probable future into th... more » Kamigoroshi: Babylon 5 had some awesome future predictions that couldn't be avoided despite all the efforts that Londo Mollari put into avoiding it. Also a memora... more » ElimGarak: This article misses some great examples and cases. Awesome stories, too. What about the multiple X-Files episode about time travel - the guy who can... more » ThisDudeRufus: Charles Dickens dealt with this before any of these. "Before I draw nearer to that stone to which you point", said Scrooge, "answer me one question. ... more » DocProf: Babylon 5, and one tragic name: Londo Mollari. more » Elk: A great example would be Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five. He travels back and forth through time and accepts the fact that nothing can change. Alm... more » Dee4leeds: Really? That's So Raven? Come on. more » ChasePolydeuces: Well Oedipus' parents saw(or heard) their future, and they ended up ordering him to be killed. Which didnt end up happening and the boy grew up to dif... more » phoghat: In a spooky voice, with a flashlight under my chin: "In The Year 2000" more » Chip Overclock: I live near Golden and work (currently) around 120th and I-25. You and I and Mrs. Overclock (etc.) should get together for dinner sometime! more » -
#triviagasm
Once You Glimpse The Future, Can You Change It?
Last week, humanity saw two minutes of our future, in the FlashForward series premiere. But can they alter their fates, or are they set in stone? We look at other premonitions and flashforwards from science fiction for clues.
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#futuremetro
What Will Today's Cities Look Like in the Future?
What will the New Yorks, Londons, and Tokyos of tomorrow look like? Will they be technological Edens, grim dystopias, or entirely obliterated? We look at science fiction's take on the future of today's cities to gauge our urban future. More » -
#imaginaryurbanism
The Venus Project Has Your Future Planned for You
If you're a fan of the Bioshock game, where a subaquatic Utopian society goes terribly wrong, you'll be weirdly drawn to the futurist gang behind real-life think tank The Venus Project. They've got a whole plan for optimizing society, using planned communities and cultural engineering. And the best part is that they've got a seriously googie 1950s futurism vibe going in all their designs. So space age! So wonderful! Check out your future Utopia, below. More » -
#conceptart
Get Ready For Antigravity! And Other Pieces of Sadly Incorrect Futurism
This piece from the 1930s shows scientists trying to come up with antigravity — now it's more than 50 years later and we're still waiting on hoverpads and floating grav-lifts. This poster is part of a series of eight that all showcase futures we should have had by now, like fish bowl swimming pools, flapwing flycars, and mining on the moon. In fact, the only two futuristic things depicted here that we actually got are the electronic home library, and robot warehouses where the bots fetch your orders. Sometimes futurism is more hopeful than predictive. More » -
#conceptart
Cheerful Deliveries In Your Snail Mail Future
If you're worried about getting packages from grandma and Amazon when you live in a hovering spacepod floating somewhere off the Pacific Rim, fret no more. You'll have friendly mail carriers with anti-Postal Tendencies (tm) automatic injector systems buzzing by to drop things off. They won't complain about the weather, steal your lingerie catalog-capsules, or mace your dog. More » -
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#conceptart
Forget The Earth, Let's Terraform The Moon!
Artist James Clyne, who already wowed us with what turned out to be a racer lost in Antarctica, also has a gorgeous vision of what it would be like if we started modifying and hacking the moon into a place to live and do business. But what's up with that giant ball in the middle of downtown? City-to-city low-gravity volleyball? Find out the answer, along with details of http://www.jamesclyne.com/artist's vision, after the jump. More » -
#conceptart
Giant Robot Repairs the Arc de Triomphe
We hope that upcoming MMOThe Day manages to look like its sumptuous concept art, pictured above. That image of the Arc de Triomphe being repaired, upgraded, or duplicated is just simply amazing. The premise of The Day is that two parallel worlds smash together, and we've got a whole gallery of strange history-mashup imagery from The Day for you to gawk at. More » -
#walle
Become A 700-Year-Old Trash Robot
You can visit the desolate world of Wall-E, this summer's animated movie about a trash-compacting robot, in an upcoming xBox game. Judging from these early screen shots, it looks like the Wall-E game may do too good a job of capturing the robot's loneliness and the toll of time on his robotic circuits. You'll be able to explore 10 other worlds in the game, but if they all look like this we'd probably have to commit robo-suicide to stave off the inevitable boredom and insanity. Minor movie spoilers after the jump More » -
#triviagasm
How To Shit In Space
When you're strapped into a tin can and rocketing through the galaxy at thousands of miles an hour, your opportunities for bathroom breaks are pretty few and far between. At some point, you're going to have to step away from the controls and relieve yourself. However, in a zero gravity environment where an errant fart can send you spinning in the opposite direction, what are you supposed to do? Here's our list of the best ways science fiction has handled this delicate question. More » -
#madscience
Bioengineered Pig Teeth Grown Inside a Rat's Stomach
These are bionengineered tooth crowns grown from pig cells that were implanted in a rat's stomach. Obviously a beta version resulted. But eventually scientists hope to use teeth like these in your mouth. Yum. Image by Douglas McFadd via Getty. -
#architecture
Mutant Spore Library in Czech Republic May Never Get Built
Earlier this year, architect Jan Kaplicky won a contest for this design of the planned Czech National Library. Though observers say he won fair and square, controversy over the purple, ten-story, octopus-shaped building continues to rage. President Vaclav Klaus has rejected the design, and so the Czech Republic may not get its mutant spore library after all.
