Science Fiction

What skyscrapers might look like in the future

Some among my readers may recall a dreadful incident, created by a dark genius of political theater, in September of 2001. This dismal act involved aircraft and skyscrapers. It ...

16 objects you might find in a pawn shop in 2050

For most of us, trying to picture the future is a futile exercise that leads at best to some bad ideas that should likely never be shared out loud. For people like TED Fellow Ch...

William Gibson riffs on writing and the future

Great science fiction writers don’t just imagine the future, they shape it. The idea that omnipresent social data networks would one day seem as normal as toothbrushes was a bor...