![]() Some of their products are intriguing (like the TV series Westworld), others are quite mediocre (like the movies Lucy and Transcendence). It’s just the focus that is no longer on rockets but on information technology and robotics (and in the near future will be on nanotechnology, genetics and quantum computing).Īll these cultural artifacts – movies, novels – are mostly “laypeople” speculating about the future. ![]() Looking at mainstream culture, we see that science fiction appeared everywhere (cinemas, Netflix series, and many novels), and popular writing and journalism on science is hot. Unsurprisingly, science fiction is in a revival alongside these developments. However, we are currently living through another period of great changes and they have to do with information technology. Looking back on that now, we may feel that technological progress hasn’t delivered. Back then, many speculated that by the year 2000, we would surely be living on the Moon or Mars. This was the time when the modern genre of science fiction really took off. ![]() ![]() ![]() First there was radio, television, automobiles, telephones, and then there was the atom bomb and putting a person on the moon. The decades after WW2, the 1950s and 1960s, was a time when many people found themselves rather stunned by the leaps of technological achievement and the rapid changes in society that had taken place. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |