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Science fiction as fact: how desires drive discoveries
Design Fiction
Is a new method for designing technology that explores the futures that ordinary people would prefer. Design fictions are provocative and engage people, encouraging them to envision, explain and raise questions about the direction of future technology and society.
Design fictions are now being used in sectors ranging from health to defence tech forecasting, and even policy making. In this way, science fiction can be used as a tool to help design future societies and technologies, giving the public a say on it too.
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The Influence Of Sci-Fi On Real Technology
Some of the tech appearing in movies wasn’t the fruit of random predictions but of consultations with industrial designers, futurists and advertising specialists.
Liquid-fuelled rocket, 3D gesture-based user interfaces, tablet computer and mobile phones are all examples of technology that first appeared on sci-fi works. However a piece of technology came to be, its undebatable that sci-fi works have accurately predicted and paved the way for many of the pieces of technology we enjoy today.
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10 Examples Of Sci-Fi’s Tech Predictions
- The electronic tablet on 2001: A Space Odyssey.
- Insect-derived foodstuffs on Snowpiercer. Nowadays there are insect-based flour and protein bars.
- Smart home de...
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Influence of Star Wars
It's been more than 30 years since the first "Star Wars."
The cultural influence of the Star Wars Films, novels, comics, television shows, games, toys, and documentaries has been so great...
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- During the cold war, Ronald Reagan created the Strategic Defense Initiative and aimed to use ground and space-based weapons to help protect the United States from attack by nuclear missiles. Critics referred to it as "Star Wars."
- Bionic hands like the ones of the heroes and villains in "Star Wars" are now used by amputees.
- Weapons and robots from "Star Wars" are becoming a reality.
- Even the Death Star is starting to appear. A former chief technology officer for Microsoft showed his "Death Star" bug zapper to shoot down mosquitoes in flight.
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“Sci-fi movies, shows or stories do provide an inspiration for the foremost and upcoming human-computer interactio..."
Philipp Jordan, University of Hawaii
Science-Fiction Devices That Became Reality
- Satellites
- Smartphones
- Smart Watches
- Robots
- Driverless Cars
The Influence Of Science Fiction On Science Fact
Many researchers acknowledge the role that science fiction has played in triggering their interest in science and inspiring breakthroughs. Even technology companies increasingly employ science fiction artists to explore potential new technologies and their social impact – also known as science fiction prototyping.
A research that looked for science-fiction-related terms in academic papers indicates that science fiction plays a significant role in scientific work and its impact is on the increase, especially on areas related to human-computer interactions.