Science fiction

“Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make you quiver” A quote written by a author, poet, and naturalist named Diane Ackerman. Most people in the society totally must have agreed to this quote. They have the same mindset, a negative one regarding to the matter of Artificial Intelligence like the fear of them surpassing human intelligence. The rest might just think that the possibility of artificial intelligence doing that is…

This essay is an exploration on Captain B McRae and how his personality progressed in the science fiction film Wall-e. The views on the captain range from how he first came across as a babyish character who was very lazy and a rotund look like all the other people on the Axium. Moving from this idea I go on to talk about how the captain is starting to show independence in learning about how to do things for himself. My final body paragraph is about the final progress showed by the captain and…

Blade runner is a science fiction film about the future, in this futuristic scenario there are robots called replicants, these are visually indistinguishable from humans, and are exclusively used for menial or dangerous work on off-world colonies. Replicants are banned from earth, if one of them managed his way to earth, blade runners will be sent to hunt them and then retire (kill) them. Deckard, who is a blade runner, has the mission to retire four replicants who have got to earth to find a…

The movie that i watched and reminds me about Artificial Intelligence and robotics is the classic science fiction film TERMINATOR 2 and shows us what we have still to learn about Artificial Intelligence.Terminator 2 tells the story of two cyborgs sent back in time from the future,one is the T800 which is living tissue over metal endoskeleton which was performed by the most iconic role Arnold Schwarzenegger to protect the future leader of the human resistance;the other (the T1000, a more advanced…

The novel Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury, a piece of literature that has something strange. It creates a proposal for what our society would be if it was able to reach the limits, not only technological but also social and ideological. Society is subject to a regime in which helps to create an organized culture in order to have " happiness " the ideologies of Communism and capitalism were in a battle to impose their ways of thinking. This is wrong because the happiness of each person…

Stephen R. Lawhead's science fiction and fantasy series “Bright Empries” seems to be like no other. Especially since it was written by him. Unlike most of Stephen R. Lawhead's work that deals with mixing mythology and historical events, “Bright Empires” does neither. Instead, they focus on humans going to other dimensions and what it would be like to visit worlds, not just countries, that were not their own. With the release of the fifth book in the series in 2014, called “The Fatal Tree”, the…

George Orwell’s Nineteen-Eighty-Four (1984) goes beyond simplistic tropes of science fiction to give a presentation of the future that is dominated by cynical fatalism. Orwell’s pensive approach to human potential has been shaped by his own contextual issues, and questions our ability to maintain functioning society without a descent into the kind of oligarchy that he represents. Conversely, Fritz Lang’s iconic 1927 sci-fi film Metropolis adopts an approach marked by the presence of idealism…

Ursula K. Le Guin’s, The Lathe of Heaven, is a science fiction novel set in a post-apocalyptic future that revolves around a man named George Orr. George’s dreams have the ability to alter reality, including the past. Before any dream-altering realities come into play, George is referred to a sleep specialist named Dr. William Haber after George gets into trouble for stealing dream-suppressing drugs. Through these “voluntary” meetings with Dr. Haber, George explores a variety of alternate…

‘Brave New World’ by Aldous Huxley is a science-fiction book in which people live in a futuristic society and a place called the World State. In ‘Brave New World’, Aldous Huxley used the idea of consumerism to describe the behaviors and lives of the citizens of the World State. The practice of consumerism by the people of the World State fulfilled their satisfactory and happiness. However, it also blinded purity and truth among its people. Different classes and different genders of people…

Rebekah Anne Lay The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy By: Douglas Adams Comedy- Science fiction FICTION Plot Summary- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is about an alien named “ Ford Prefect” that is posing on Earth as an out of work actor to do research to make the book “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” and when the world is about to be destroyed he tells his friend “Arthur Dent” that he is an alien and that he has been posing on Earth to make a book and only minutes from the planet…