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The Tomorrow Project

“Science fiction gives us the language so that we can have a conversation about the future.” – Brian David Johnson, Futurist Intel’s Tomorrow Project presented authors and futurists Douglas Rushkoff,...

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Conversations About the Future

What kind of future do you want to live in? What kind of future should we avoid? What is your wildest request of the future? Brian David Johnson, Intel’s futurist, asks these questions of scientists...

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Imagining the Future and Building It

There is a way for us to change the future for the better. We can change the future by changing the story we tell ourselves about the future that we are going to live in. Imagining the Future and...

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Cautions, Dreams & Curiosities

A collection of short stories and essays about fact-based, science based futures we want to work toward together, and others that we hope to avoid entirely. Presented by the Center for Science and the...

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Um dia da minha vida em 2025

Estamos vivendo uma era exponencial, em que a tecnologia aproximou as pessoas, socializou os recursos, trouxe mais transparência, ética e compromisso. São novos tempos, onde cada um de nós tem super...

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A Day in My Life in 2025

We are living in an era in which technology has exponentially reduced the distance between individuals, socialized the resources, and increased transparency, ethics and commitment. These are new...

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Hieroglyph: Stories & Visions for a Better Future

This anthology unites twenty of today’s leading thinkers, writers, and visionaries—among them Cory Doctorow, Gregory Benford, Elizabeth Bear, Bruce Sterling, and Neal Stephenson—to contribute works of...

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The Future – Powered by Fiction

“What if I told you that the future could be found threaded through the words of this anthology? Would you believe it?”  – Brian David Johnson, Futurist Take a whirlwind tour of tomorrow through the...

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Dark Futures

One person’s utopia is another’s dystopia, but both perspectives have one thing in common—hope for humanity is taken away when all the questions are answered for us. Science fiction is the language we...

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Evoke: Human Trafficking

Writer: Madeline Ashby Illustrator: Anthony Diecidue Expert Consultants: Carmen Quevado José Luis Echenausía Monroy Creative Director: Kiyash Monsef The post Evoke: Human Trafficking appeared first on...

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Living Tomorrow

Our science fiction visions of the future often obsess over the mechanical and the digital—from rockets and space stations to holodecks and cyberspace. In this volume, 11 young authors use science...

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Journeys Through Time and Space

Humanity defines itself by its journeys. Whether we’re crossing oceans, blasting off into space, migrating to distant unknown lands, or pursuing voyages of discovery within our own minds, we learn...

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Slow Catastrophes, Uncertain Revivals

Edited by Michele Speitz and Joey Eschrich This collection of research-based stories about the future is proudly published by Project Hieroglyph, founded by Neal Stephenson and headquartered at...

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Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction

Everything Change features twelve stories from our 2016 Climate Fiction Short Story Contest along with a foreword by science fiction legend and contest judge Kim Stanley Robinson, and an interview...

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What Algorithms Want

We depend on—we believe in—algorithms to help us get a ride, choose which book to buy, execute a mathematical proof. It’s as if we think of code as a magic spell, an incantation to reveal what we need...

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Frankenstein: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has endured in the popular imagination for two hundred years. Begun as a ghost story by an intellectually and socially precocious eighteen-year-old author during a cold and...

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Ulises I

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Overview: Stories in the Stratosphere

Edited by Michael G. Bennett, Joey Eschrich, and Ed Finn A collection of science fiction stories, art, and speculative timelines exploring the near future of the stratosphere. From Star Trek and 2001:...

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The Rightful Place of Science: Frankenstein

Edited by Megan Halpern, Joey Eschrich, and Jathan Sadowski Two hundred years after its publication, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus continues to speak to modern concerns about...

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Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities: A Collection of Space Futures

Why should we go to space? To learn more about the universe and our place in it? To extract resources and conduct commerce? To demonstrate national primacy and technological prowess? To live and...

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