scholarly journals ON THE WAY TO A NEW ROUND OF INTERESTS IN THE FIELD OF SCIENCE EDUCATION

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 4-4
Author(s):  
Elena Vasilevskaya
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Chemical Ecology ◽  
Medicinal Chemistry ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Mathematical Chemistry ◽  
New Directions ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Way

Movement along this path will fundamentally change many of the ideas about the possibilities of science and technology that have developed over the centuries and decades. The surge of research in the field of nanometer sizes, the emergence of new directions at the intersection of different sciences (medicinal chemistry, chemical bionics, chemical ecology, mathematical chemistry, chemistry of life) - these are the realities of today. The prospects for the use of new technologies in the future often resemble the plots of science fiction novels, but those whom we teach today will bring them to life.

scholarly journals Postcards from the future

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 12-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristin Miller
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Southern California ◽  
Northern California ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
The Future ◽  
Science Fiction Films ◽  
Photo Essay ◽  
The Way

This article contemplates the way Northern and Southern California have been used in science fiction films since the 1970s. Continuing a trend the author traces to the 1940s novels Earth Abides and Ape and Essence, Northern California represents possible utopian futures while Southern California represents dystopia. The article includes a photo essay featuring science fiction film stills held up against their filming locations in Los Angeles and the Bay Area.

scholarly journals O-bi, o-ba: Koniec cywilizacji – postpiśmienny świat Piotra Szulkina

1970 ◽  
pp. 273-284
Author(s):  
Maciej Pietrzak
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Biblical Text ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Written Word ◽  
The Way ◽  
Adam Mickiewicz

Pietrzak Maciej, O-bi, o-ba: Koniec cywilizacji – postpiśmienny świat Piotra Szulkina [O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization – The Postliterate World of Piotr Szulkin]. „Przestrzenie Teorii” nr 32. Poznań 2019, Adam Mickiewicz University Press, pp. 273–284. ISSN 1644-6763. DOI 10.14746/pt.2019.32.14. Piotr Szulkin made his mark in the history of cinema primarily as the author of disturbing visions of the future. His four films made between 1979 and 1985 comprised the science-fiction tetralogy, which is still one of the greatest artistic achievements of this genre in Polish cinema. The subject of the article is the third production of Szulkin’s series – the post-apocalyptic film O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization from 1984. In the film, the director creates a suggestive vision of a world destroyed as a result of nuclear conflict, in which the original functions of literature and the written word are forgotten. The author article analyzes the way in which forsaken literary artifacts are used in the post-literary reality of the film. An important element of his considerations is also the post-apocalyptic reception of the biblical text, on whose elements the mythology of the film’s world is based.

Interview with John Brunner

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jad Smith
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Daily Pattern ◽  
The Future ◽  
John Brunner ◽  
The Way

This chapter presents the transcript of an interview with John Brunner conducted by Steven L. Goldstein. The interview covered topics such as where Brunner gets his ideas; how he goes about putting his ideas on paper; whether he believes that the future will be as bleak as he made it appear in The Sheep Look Up; whether he follows a set, daily pattern in his work; if he knew that his experimental novels such as Stand on Zanzibar and The Jagged Orbit would turn out the way they did; advice that he can give to aspiring writers; his views on the influence of mainstream writers on science fiction; and how he felt when he won the Hugo Award for Stand on Zanzibar.

The Way the Future Was, 1930–1951

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael R. Page
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Fictional World ◽  
Interest In Science ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Way

This chapter looks at Frederik Pohl's first foray into creating a science fictional world by focusing on his youthful adventures in science fiction (SF) fandom. Pohl discovered SF at age ten in 1930. At that time, SF as a defined category of fiction was only in its fifth year, although the genre itself had a much longer pedigree. Hugo Gernsback launched the first SF magazine, Amazing Stories, in April 1926. The first SF magazine Pohl read was the Summer 1930 issue of Wonder Stories Quarterly. This chapter discusses Pohl's discovery of a collection of pulp magazines in 1931 at his uncle's farm in Pennsylvania; his interest in science fiction magazines; his initial attempts at writing his own stories; and his involvement with the group called Futurians. The chapter also describes Pohl's involvement in the literary agency business.

scholarly journals Darwin’s Monsters: Evolution, Science, and the Gothic in Christian Alvart’s ”Pandorum”

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 157
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Pisarska
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Evolutionary Processes ◽  
Advanced Science ◽  
The Future ◽  
A Site

<p>This article analyses Gothic tropes in the science fiction film <em>Pandorum</em> (2009, dir. Christian Alvart), through the lens of such concepts as evolution and science, which are presented in the film as inherently monstrous. Key to the analysis is the notion of the return of the repressed (or abjected) past which invades the future, disrupting biological, social, and moral borders of the human. This Gothic return, facilitated by advanced science and technology, turns the future into a site of humanity’s confrontation with their animal instincts, highlighting the fragility of our civilisation and proving our subjection to evolutionary processes.</p>

scholarly journals On the Pending Robot Revolution and the Utopia of Human Agency

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 208-225
Author(s):  
Daniel Bodén
Keyword(s):  
Data Processing ◽  
Basic Assumption ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Social Experiences ◽  
Electronic Data Processing ◽  
Electronic Data ◽  
The Social ◽  
Welfare Society ◽  
The Future

A hallmark of modernist thought is the belief in science and technology as a socially revolutionary force. Consequently, new technologies have often been sequenced by pictures of another world to be. The birth of electronic data processing (EDP) was no exception. Provoking both hopes and anxieties, EDP and its subsequent process of automation has, ever since the launch of the first electronic data processing machines in the early 1950’s, been a cornerstone for countless extravagant visions of the future, such as the thought of an ever so impending “Robot Revolution”. This article builds from the basic assumption that visions of the future draw on notions of what at a given time is considered socially and politically desirable, unwanted or at all possible. It thus argues that the robot revolution could be studied as a form of reified anticipation through which possible social trajectories are made symbolically comprehensible. Focusing on the automation debate of the Swedish 1950’s, I argue that the robot revolution serves as a symbolic articulation of the social experiences of Swedish welfare society, and that it carries both ideological and utopian dimensions worth examining.

A Revolutionary Haunt: Utopian Frontiers in William S. Burroughs’s Late Trilogy

2019 ◽  
pp. 33-73
Author(s):  
Christian P. Haines
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
American Revolution ◽  
Global Politics ◽  
Critical Response ◽  
Communal Property ◽  
The Future ◽  
Self Rule ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Way

This chapter examines William S. Burroughs’ late trilogy of novels—Cities of the Red Night (1981), The Place of Dead Roads (1983), and The Western Lands (1987)—as a critical response to American neoliberalism. It analyzes what Burroughs terms the trilogy’s retroactive utopianism, or the way in which it reactivates the potential of historical revolutions (including the American Revolution and the global revolts of the 1960s) as a way of reimagining the future of global politics. Focusing on The Place of Dead Roads, the chapter shows how Burroughs combines science fiction and the Western to envision the Frontier in utopian terms. It argues that Burroughs’s fiction builds on the politics of the multitude, or the antisystemic politics of the late 1990s to the present, articulating a vision of the nation in terms of communal property, egalitarian relations, and democratic self-rule.

On the Importance of Framing

2010 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Nathan Harter
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Conceptual Frameworks ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Face ◽  
Unanticipated Consequences ◽  
The Way

Forces have converged to produce stunning new technologies and the Information Age. As a result, we experience unanticipated consequences. Among the implications of this transition are a variety of ethical predicaments. This chapter introduces a process of conceptual framing. We classify this work as the inspection and consideration of our conceptual frameworks. We move from doubt about our current frameworks toward better ones. The way to make this transition is to render beliefs into ideas and then compare those ideas. Nevertheless, there is always an imperfect alignment of ideas with lived reality, so we must avoid dogmatic closure. The ethics predicaments we face are in actuality an ill-defined “mess” of multiple problems, the solutions to which affect one another. In response, we consider the processes of design for the future in the face of such ill-defined ethics problems.

The Future of Audit in Light of Technological Changes

2021 ◽  
pp. 228-249
Author(s):  
Sanja Sever Mališ ◽  
Lajoš Žager ◽  
Mateja Brozović
Keyword(s):  
Financial Reporting ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Technological Changes ◽  
External Audit ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
The Way

External audit of financial statements plays a key role in achieving transparent financial reporting, since its purpose is to provide reasonable assurance that the presented financial statements are free of material misstatements due to fraud or error. In the process of fulfilling this role, auditors must be adaptable, especially when it comes to technological advancements. This chapter explains the effect that new technologies have on audit of financial statements. In addition to summarizing the technological changes that impacted the audit profession in the past and therefore introduced new generations of audit, the authors have identified issues and challenges in the way the audit is currently performed. Some of the new technologies that are discussed in this chapter have the potential to mitigate these issues. However, new challenges and risks may be introduced with accepting these technologies in the process of financial reporting and auditing.

Animating the Science Fiction Imagination

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.P. Telotte
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Literary Genre ◽  
Space Travel ◽  
World War ◽  
Feature Films ◽  
Short Films ◽  
The Future ◽  
Technological Developments

Before flying saucers, robot monsters, and alien menaces invaded the movies of the 1950s, there was already a significant body of animated science fiction, produced by such studios as Disney, the Fleischers, and Terrytoons. That work has largely been overlooked or forgotten, despite the fact that the same pre-World War II era that produced this group of short films also saw the more prominent development and flourishing of SF as a literary genre. This book surveys that neglected body of work to show how it helped contribute to the burgeoning SF imagination that was manifested in pulp literature, serials, feature films, and even World’s Fairs of the era. It argues that prewar cartoons helped to create a familiarity with the scientific and technological developments that were spurring that SF imagination and build an audience for this new genre. Demonstrating the same modernist spirit as SF literature and feature films, these cartoons adopted many of the genre’s most important motifs (rockets and space travel, robots, alien worlds and their inhabitants, and fantastic inventions and inventors), offered comic visions of the era’s growing fascination with science and technology, and framed that matter in a nonthreatening fashion. Popular animation thereby not only added another dimension to the SF imagination, but also helped prepare postwar audiences to embrace SF’s vision of the future and of inevitable change.

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