Teaching VR Through Sci-Fi: Why My Students Get Excited About Digital Dystopias
You know what’s funny? When I first showed Tron to my juniors three years ago, half of them laughed at the graphics. “Ms. Chen, this...
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Why We Keep Coming Back to Rain-Soaked Streets and Neon Dreams
You know what I love about film people who claim they’re “over” cyberpunk? They’ll roll their eyes at another Blade Runner discussion, dismiss Ghost in...
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When Sci-Fi Stopped Being Fiction and Started Being My Job Training
You know what’s weird about working in game testing? Half the stuff I’m debugging now feels like it came straight out of sci-fi I was...
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Been There, Done That: My Four Decades of Reading About the End of Everything
You know, after forty years of watching real spacecraft leave Earth and reading about fictional ones fleeing dying worlds, I’ve come to realize something odd...
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Why Every Sci-Fi Story I Love Eventually Asks “What Makes You Human?”
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately while reshelfing books in the stacks – how every great science fiction story I’ve encountered in fifty...
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Why I’ve Spent Forty Years Watching Sci-Fi Get the Future Wrong (And Why That’s Actually Perfect)
You know, after four decades of designing actual spacecraft while reading stories about fictional ones, I’ve come to a weird realization—science fiction has never really...
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From HAL to Samantha: How My Obsession with AI Characters Shows We’re Finally Ready to Embrace Digital Consciousness
I still remember the first time HAL 9000’s calm, measured voice made my skin crawl. I was maybe fifteen, watching “2001: A Space Odyssey” on...
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The AI Villains That Shaped My Nightmares (And Why They Matter More Than Ever)
You know, after five decades of reading sci-fi, I’ve watched our relationship with artificial intelligence evolve from simple robotic servants to something far more complex...
