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Science fiction allows artists to speculate about the future through imaginative and technical concepts. But so often the prevailing vision of that future in popular culture tends toward the dystopian ...

Science fiction (SF) influences everything in this day and age, from the design of everyday artifacts to how we—including the current crop of 50-something Silicon Valley billionaires—work. And that’s ...

Futuristic gadgets once imagined only in movies are now becoming real gadgets from science fiction that people can actually buy and use. Advances in artificial intelligence, robotics, and advanced ...