science fiction
The bridge between imagination and technological advancement, where the dreamer’s vision predicts change, and foreshadows a futuristic reality. Science fiction has the ability to become “science reality”.
Wendy
Wendy was tall with bone-straight, icy blonde hair that reached the small of her back. She had the kind of hair that women pay hundreds or even thousands to emulate at the finest salons in the world. Her skin was pale, while maintaining a light, healthy glow. Her only potential flaw was a faint smattering of freckles that adorned the bridge of her nose, thinning at the very tops of her cheeks—and Cara felt that these birthmarks only added to the woman’s almost ethereal charm.
By Ciara Grubbs5 years ago in Futurism
The Orville: When Cancel Culture Has Gone Too Far
We are all aware of and maybe even joined in on cancel culture. Everyday people post about consumer items, businesses, their hobbies, and their own personal thoughts and feelings on the internet. We are bombarded with social ideas and mannerisms that blatantly say whether they are good or bad. No one needs to really think about anything anymore because social media and other media sources pretty much does that for you. Do you want to know how to bake a cake? Google it. Do you want to know what style of clothing you should wear? Again, Google it. It's all right there for you. You don't have to think at all. As of 2021, what happens if someone posts or even created a product that does not express the exact social ideas and mannerisms that the internet has labeled for us as acceptable? We the people go out and get rid of it with any means possible. We might write nasty comments to whoever the perpetrator is. We might call the perpetrator's place of business to get them fired. Basically we cancel them. It doesn't even matter when the unacceptable behavior happened. It could of happened 50 years ago and they still get canceled. This is all normal to us now. As a collective whole, we don't want to see anything that may be deemed bad. We want to make all bad things disappear. This all sounds great. Who wouldn't want to get rid of all the horrible people and companies out there? At the same time is there such a thing as going too far with cancel culture? The science fiction series the Orville's seventh episode Majority Rule depicts a 21st century Earth like society where cancel culture and social justice completely dominates their way of life. You thought losing your job and being socially ostracized from society was bad. What if you lived in a world where the punishment for being canceled was a full on lobotomy.
By Scarwled Writing5 years ago in Futurism
Inter-net: Match.Kong
A low thick fog drifted in as I approached the facility. In the distance, the mournful groan of a foghorn warned of the imminent danger ahead. I’d visited him many times in my career. But this time was going to be different. He could be difficult. He could be stubborn – making the job at hand no easy task.
By Diane Stewart5 years ago in Futurism
Human's first time on galactic iron chef
"Welcome back, everyone, to the 17th Cyclical Iron Chef Glactica, where the great species compete for the title of greatest culinary masters in the Milky Way. It's looking to be another fantastic day of competition, especially with the upsets of yesterday. Rik'tal, what can you tell us about these unexpected results?"
By Crossroads of inspiration 5 years ago in Futurism
Early Voting
For a project of its amazing scale and ambition, the Psephos Engine was launched with little fanfare, noted only by a few circles of bleeding-edge computer engineers and a tiny handful of truly obsessive political nerds. It was to take the best of existing research and knowledge, synthesize it with top-level computer architecture and algorithms, and then pump a tremendous quantity of data points into the mix with the intention of consistently predicting the outcome of a democratic election. The response from most was an eyeroll, and even the project heads were careful to avoid the usual buzzphrase-laden talk about future technologies and society. Instead, they quietly went about the work of preparing their machine for its debut prediction, feeding in the information and pruning back the stranger forecasts that it generated.
By Andrew Johnston5 years ago in Futurism
Book 1 Flight of the Armada Chapter 4
Brent’s initial excitement at exploring the Earthian oceans was tempered by his first good look at a Portuguese man-o-war and noticed the number of fish entangled in its extensions. He recognized a predator when he saw one and as the Isador moved along in the water, he realized how fortunate he had been up until now. Sharks and barracuda and sea snakes were beautiful creatures, but he was completely ignorant about them. They were as bad as parmenters and scorrups of Thuringa. He told himself to be more cautious when exploring outside the Isador. He was the only Aquatic scout, and it would be quite easy to be killed on this alien world. His airbreathing kinsmen might never know what happened.
By Jay Michael Jones5 years ago in Futurism
Book 1 Flight of the Armada Chapter 5 Part 2
On the Sunday before Christmas, Darien prepared to go to the little church Lloyd Martin’s family attended. The other Thuringi, curious to get a first-hand glimpse of the rituals of this strange Christian religion experience, piled into the pickup and went with him. Monica Martin waited by the front of the church. She led the group inside, and they filled an entire back row pew on one side of the church. His peers followed Darien’s lead and removed their hats and quietly observed the activity around them.
By Jay Michael Jones5 years ago in Futurism
Book 1 Flight of the Armada Chapter 5 Part 1
Gareth shivered as he came down the stairs early one Sunday morning. It was unusually cold in the house, and he opened the door to the front room wood stove, expecting to see it dark. To his surprise, the embers glowed red hot and the area immediately around the stove was comfortable. It was the rest of the house that was cold. He added some logs and soon built a roaring fire. He adjusted the flue and went into the kitchen to start up a morning meal. At first, he merely glanced out the window, then snapped back in surprise and stared out.
By Jay Michael Jones5 years ago in Futurism
The Sleepwalkers
It all started as just another game to play: Cass began to go out into the night and take photos of the downtown area. Her mother would have locked her up in her room and barred the windows if she had known, but Cass always made sure to leave out the back door right after her mom fell asleep from that third glass of wine. And if her dad had known—well, he wasn’t there, so what did it matter?
By Jillian Spiridon5 years ago in Futurism
Can this dream I had can be a sci-fi movie?
An old model television set changed to a random channel in a store by an under-aged child using the new technical features based on a 2028 year model of advanced electronics. Suddenly, the under-aged child's parents frantically grabbed the child, escorting her away from the television model while discomfortingly scolding her. After the customers retreat the program has been changed to a past documentary of the Ferguson riots and police brutality videos dating from 2014.
By C.A Fenderson Jr.5 years ago in Futurism
The Coming of Angels
Amongst the vermin-infested heavy-footed streets, drug limbs of peril searching for a glimpse of sunlight. It has been helpless hours since the cry of piercing sirens cautioned the citizens to yield pleas to the cruel. As if the loud horns which bled citizen’s eardrums causing instant insanity during the man-made apocalypse events were not catastrophic enough, many souls startle upon the evening sirens blazing to clear the night.
By C.A Fenderson Jr.5 years ago in Futurism
