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About Binding Prometheus
I want to start actively advocating on behalf of my own work, and the most valuable part of my canon is, without a doubt, Binding Prometheus, the play I have been working on since 2019 and only finished in 2023 as part of my MA. The play itself is an amalgamation of a million different inspirations. On one end, it evokes the Ancient Greek myth-play, deriving its own title from the earliest extant work of Western drama we have, Aeschylus’s Prometheus Bound. On the other end, it borrows significantly from the sci-fi bulwarks from over the years, namely Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Karel Capek’s Rossum’s Universal Robots. The play could be an episode of Black Mirror, I fear. I don’t know. I’ve only ever seen one episode of Black Mirror.
By Steven Christopher McKnight10 days ago in Futurism
Blade Runner
These days, androids might very well dream of electric sheep. In 1982, not so much. Blade Runner takes place six years in our past, as per the present timeline. Other timelines, we don't know. Perhaps there, Replicants rule the lives of meat sacks, and the Imperial Skinjobs are all as beautiful as Rutger Hauer or Daryl Hannah are in Blade Runner.
By Tom Bakerabout a month ago in Futurism
A Dystopia of Our Own Design
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever. –George Orwell, 1984 More and more often, I look around and find that the themes of my favorite dystopian novels have come to life: separatism/division, erasure, controlling the past to control the future, the rich stamping on the poor while the poor take it out on each other, using technology to control and monitor our lives, etc. It is everything that we have been warned against, especially in literature—time and time again.
By Stephanie Hoogstad2 months ago in Futurism
Suspicious Minds Podcast
In the final moments before he took his own life, 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III took out his phone and messaged the chatbot that had become his closest friend.
By Frank Racioppi2 months ago in Futurism
Accidental Time Travel
There are many stories and concepts that have deeply fascinated me. Stories that consist of that strange and hazy divide between science and the supernatural. One such concept that has always intrigued me is the bizarre phenomena of time slips.
By Jasmine Aguilar3 months ago in Futurism
AI - The Phantom Menace
We’ve all read and heard about the various problems that artificial intelligence (AI) can bring. Some are already happening—like job losses or media being flooded with AI-generated texts and images. Others remain in the realm of science fiction.
By Bozhan Bozhkov6 months ago in Futurism
Review of 'Superman'
I've been following and enjoying Superman's exploits since I started watching him played by George Reeves on television when I was a kid in the 1950s, and started reading the comic book a few years later, created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster way back in 1938. And as an adult I even contributed an article about The Man of Steel -- “Superman, Patriotism, and Doing the Ultimate Good” (which explored why Superman didn't just wipe out Hitler and the Nazis in World War Two) in The Man from Krypton -- an anthology published in 2006.
By Paul Levinson6 months ago in Futurism
What I think about space tourism
It’s Midsummer and it’s raining. It looks and feels like the start of winter already. Instead of sitting to contemplate how miserable I am feeling right now, I decided to read some news to find something worth complaining about? Why? I already told you why.
By Susan Fourtané 7 months ago in Futurism
"...And the Dead Come Through."
Whatever It is, whatever It ultimately wants, one thing is for certain: it wants communion. The interface goes in. The channel opens. And the dead come through.
By Tom Baker7 months ago in Futurism
Interview With an AI
Author’s preface: The employment contract I signed had some fairly strict confidentiality clauses therefore I have had to leave out a significant amount of detail and am not able to provide any information about the actual content of the work. I am probably being overly conservative but I did not want to take any chance with what is the only job I have at the moment over this story. My apologies.
By Everyday Junglist8 months ago in Futurism
Summer reading or AI fiction?
“The future has never been more uncertain.” -Susan Fourtané, Lux Ad Futurum ~~~ Written by Susan Fourtané, Science and Technology Journalist
By Susan Fourtané 8 months ago in Futurism
Schism, Part II
(Schism Part I) I tap on the door and when it opens I'm startled as always by Ellie's eyes. They are this piercing and indescribable shade of green-blue, kind and intelligent. Her face lights up–bright, beautiful.
By Bex Jordan8 months ago in Futurism