Science Fiction

A view of a planet in a multi-sun system. A dialogue between science fiction and science. Credit: The Science website via DALEE

Double suns and alien worlds: the science fiction journey from Tatooine to reality

Scientists used Bayesian network analysis to study how scientific discoveries influence science fiction literature
The cover of the book The Fate of Humanity - The Keeper of the Key

"The Fate of Mankind: The Keeper of the Key" - a new science fiction book

The book's cover illustrator is veteran comic book artist Roger Bonet, who has worked with Marvel and DC Comics on a variety of well-known titles such as "Iron Man," "The Avengers," "Spider-Man," "Nightwing" and "Batman" * Excerpt from the book
A soldier in science fiction. Illustration: depositphotos.com

How governments use science fiction to predict potential threats

There are many topics that science fiction deals with that will undoubtedly feed defense research around warfare and ways to reduce risk. While we can never predict the future completely, we can only
The foundation series poster, based on the book series by Isaac Asimov. Photo: APPLE TV+

The galactic institution - the last barrier to barbarism in the TV series, and who will save us in reality from returning to the Middle Ages?

Did Asimov predict humanity's collapse back into the Middle Ages where respect for knowledge is your knowledge and ignorance will take over? It turns out that the denial of science as it is expressed even more strongly justifies Asimov's fear. appear to be
A plan for building submarines dating back to 1860 was probably the inspiration for Jules Ron, but the original idea was already put forward by Margaret (Lucas) Cavendish, in 1666. Photo: shutterstock

writing the future

Surprisingly, it's not the information scientists, nor the futurists - but the science fiction writers who have many times succeeded in predicting the future: flights into space, satellites, submarines, even the credit card and the iPad. And how creepy, two writers
An airplane without moving parts developed in MIT laboratories. Screenshot from YouTube

Inspired by the Madhav, a plane with no moving parts and a blue ionic glow

In Dyson's 1988 collection of essays, he envisions an intelligence spreading across the entire universe and turning it into a vast cosmic mind. "What will the mind choose to do when it knows and controls the entire universe?" Illustration: pixabay.

What is a machine as smart as God would like?

A view of a planet outside the solar system. The science fiction of the XNUMXs. Illustration: shutterstock

Why science fiction is necessary for our survival in the future

The robot BB-8 in action. Image from the movie "The Force Awakens". Photography: David James

What will happen when robots have feelings?

The original Godzilla movie poster from 1954

Iggy Tsuburaya, the stunt man behind the Godzilla movies

Actor Leonard Nimoy and his wife Susan at the opening of a film of the "Star Trek" film series in Hollywood, 3/4/2009. Photo: s_bukley / Shutterstock.com

Leonard Nimoy, Mr. Spock from "Star Trek" has died

From the movie "The Planet of the Apes - Dawn". PR photo

delusional

time traveler Illustration: shutterstock

Time travel - the cognitive paradox

Right: Prof. Dan Shahar and Mouz Ovadia. Conductivity and insulation

Between opposition and symmetry

The short Israeli science fiction film sight presents a near future where contact lenses work like "Google glasses" and augmented reality is part of everyday life. The film, considered one of the best short science fiction films of 2012, was produced as a final project at Bezalel. Directed by: Daniel Lazo and Eran Mi-Raz. Game: Uri Gulad and Deborah Arushas (photo courtesy of the creators).

Spotlight - in praise of the fictional work / Uri Aviv

The scene of transferring humans using the tow beam from the spaceship Enterprise to the land of the nearby planet from the series Star Trek.

Beam me up Scotty: But only for quantum particles

George Takei, Solo from the original Star Trek series, greeted NASA employees with "live long and prosperous lives" during his 2008 visit to the Goddard Space Center in Maryland. Photo: NASAT

The science of Star Trek

The character of Frankenstein in the 1910 Edison film. From Wikipedia

The loneliness of human beings

The machine won a place of supremacy. From the movie "Metropolis" (1927). Screenshot

Robot vs. Human

the cover of the book

"The Book of Haaretz" - a sociological analysis

The Tik-Tok robot from The Wizard of Oz (not to be confused with the Tin Man!)

Robotics - exemplary robots / Michael Anderson and Susan Lee Anderson

Jules Verne

Success has two fathers - Jules Verne and Pierre Hetzel

The cover of the book "Living in a Strange Land"

"Living in a foreign land" - a sociological analysis

The cover of the book Gal Mokh by Paul Anderson, Maariv Publishing 1980

What would happen if everyone suddenly became smart?

God. third. Wells

Thursday Wells - the successful failure