Hard science fiction

Are You Infected? “No way! Not Possible! All lies!” Those are the words I want to say to save the faces of humanity, but unfortunately, what the authors wrote about in swollen expectation is true for many. De Graaf, Wann, and Naylor compare our “lot more stuff and much higher material expectations than previous generations did” to an diseases that will continue to spread and swell our expectations more (De Graaf, Wann, Naylor). What these authors said was an overstatement; one that did not…

Although many try to blend in with the rest of the population, the few who break away and think with eccentricity stand out and make a change. In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Bernard Marx, John the Savage, and Helmholtz Watson all use their knowledge and ability to be an individual in order to understand freedom and escape from average society and community. Bernard is very important in the plot of the story because he is the one who first openly shows individuality and freedom, and…

Winston Smith as a Flawed Hero Within the first few pages of George Orwell’s 1984, one can determine that this is not a normal place by any means. One’s mind starts to paint the scene of a cold, dark, and gloomy place where a uniform society exists. At first, this so-called Oceania, seems very distant with no current relations to the world we live in today, but the one constant within the two is what it means to be a hero. Overtime the concept of a hero hasn’t changed in itself, but the deeds…

temperature which paper burns without being exposed to the flame. Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) is closely associated with postmodernism, which began in the late 20th century and has lasted till present day. It is largely a reaction to assumed certainty of science, or object, effort to explain reality. Ray’s obsession over magic and other fantasies made him into the writer he is today. On May 10, 1993, there was a campine in Germany where they would gather large masses of book. Thirty-four…

ROBOTICS Robotics have been around since the Third Century B.C. of early descriptions of Automata appearing in Lie Zi text of a mechanical engineer named Yan Shi who created a life-size, human-shaped figure f his mechanical handiwork. Due to their abilities to compute many tasks and as artificial intelligence increases. Western civilization, specifically, has been in love and terrified by the idea of human machines. In an unending search of humankind to figure out who we are; A question mostly…

Lana Wachowski became famous as one of the Wachowski Brothers. Blockbusters including The Matrix Trilogy helped her make a name for herself in the film industry, but that name was Laurence Wachowski. As their movies rose to fame and acclaim, Wachowski directing duo sought to keep their personal lives in the shadows, avoiding the press until Cloud Atlas. A trailer for their new film allowed Laurence to make a name in the industry again, and this time it would be the proper name - Lana Wachowski.…

The world of Artificial Intelligence offers profound benefits to society, along with perilous potential consequences. The outcome of the advancement of Artificial Intelligence likely lies in the hands of those who develop the field. This kind of power comes with numerous ethical questions, as to how far we as a society want to take Artificial Intelligence. Would we prefer a world without disease, or poverty, at the expense of human control over society itself? Important questions such as…

Technology: destroys a place A fast world, Fahrenheit 451 Through reading and studying books people gain knowledge. The book is a dystopian world. It is a dark and terrible world that everything they do they shouldn’t. They burn books as a cleansing source to get rid of knowledge that is in the books. Montag a character in the book hides books and get colt and has to run away. He ran away and he meets up with these other people and the city got boomed, and Montag and the people went back to…

in do in regards to their bias, like saying that a synth is an abomination. That is explicit bias. The bias against synths shows us a bit how biases tend to form in our real world. In the game world most of the bias against synths is explicit. It’s hard to convey implicit biases over a video game correctly because a character’s implicit bias, just like our real world, might be hidden away and only come out very rarely, or only in the use of stereotypes. It’s much easier to convey a character’s…

In dystopian literature, the societies people are living in at the time are often corrupt, and the worlds of 1984 and “2081” are no exception. In the novel 1984 and the short story “2081”, inhumanity in their societies is shown through the memories that are taken from their people and from the cruel ways they are punished. The two civilizations both brainwash their citizens by changing their memories. For instance, in “2081”, the smart people were all given devices to disrupt their thought…