#Sci-Fi to Reality

[saassolutionarchitecturepatte]

https://cogentibs.com/beam-me-up-science-teleportation-leaps-from-sci-fi-to-reality/

Beam Me Up, Science: Teleportation Leaps from Sci-Fi to Reality

Can you think of stepping into a pod in New York and emerging seconds later in Tokyo? Sound impossible? Think again. The realm of teleportation, once relegated to the fantastical worlds of Star Trek and science fiction, is now materializing in laboratories across the globe.

[scipunk]

Videodrome (1983)

[jesncin]

It's "Superman has always been an immigrant" until being an immigrant is too politically charged in the american context and then suddenly it's "no, he's a good all american citizen" and "I don't think he's a part of the cultural moment".

[theactioneer]

Christopher Lambert, Nirvana (1997)

[whereserpentswalk]

Imagine what it would be like for a society with 21st century level tech, on an earth that was both flat and infinite. Our society lead us to stop exploring at a certain point. Eventually trade caravans stopped finding new lands to trade with, and colonial empires stopped finding new places to destroy. But in a world like this that just wouldn't happen, first contact situations would be basically indefinite.

Think about what that would do to your sense of place in the world. Around the equivalent of the 1800s we'd probably figure out that there wasn't going to be an end. Some exploration would be haltered by things like massive uninhabitable zones (who knows how climate would work), but a 21st century society would always find ways.

Imagine living comfortably in a 21st century world and finding out about new first contacts, new contents, new cultures, new species, every day. There would be entire places, entire human civilizations, that you only learn exist as an adult. It would certainly change politics a lot (there are always new threats, and always new players on the board, and imperialism might be way worse of the wrong regime is doing the exploration). There would be an entire branch of anthropologist that exists to find new cultures. Scifi and fantasy would make up weird things that exist in hidden corners of the world.

There's no big thesis to this. Just thing it's an interesting normalweird worldbuilding concept. Could be very lighthearted. Could be very very dark.

[callistocalavarni]

storytimes from my space dr

even though this life is somewhat lost to time it still has a place in my heart, as well my mind. This being one of my first drs I was constantly shifting I wanted to talk about some of my favorite things here ! (might be shifting back soon who knows)

martyr, a video game i was addicted too, like i couldn't stop playing it. and its programed by this rando guy in his 40s. the whole of the game was climbing to the top of this mountain, but while your on your way up a bunch of different creatures need your help. either with finding a lost object or just wasting your time on little side missions. you can never really finish the game, I did, but once you re play it you realize how much stuff you missed on your first play through.

hospital ships, so much more comforting than any hospital here. growing up I had to visit the hospital every other few weeks, and the boring grey walls along with poorly lit rooms did not do it justice. But, the difference with this dr is getting to see whole galaxies outside of a waiting room while orbiting a moon. like how do I even convey that feeling. also my girlfriend here is a doctor, so shes always running around to different zones. we don't really get to see eachother unless she's on illumi waiting to be transferred.

I could make a whole post about illumi, but all you need to know for now is its one of the biggest cities–the whole moon is a city. I also loved watching andor becuase one of the scenes remined me of it ! it's cold, about 50-60 F, and always raining or misting.I use to work as a mechanic on one of the shipping levels. I'd do it again, I didn't mind the early mornings or work load.

posters for planes i've flown.. just sitting there in loading zones, or railways.

lights, motherboards, and more. oh how i wish I could be a computer.

spending more time on the ground than actual space. ?? yea ik its a "space dr" but i'm not brett from alien, and traveling is way faster. speaking of alien, i've only had one weird alien encounter in that dr, and the thing could camouflage its self into the snow. anyway,

outposts in fuck what nowhere, you can watch for fires, or camp, or run away from the authorities. but I love being alone here. I once stayed in a random town for a month, didn't speak the language, didn't know if the food was edible, just a hammock and a dream really.

also coming back to this dr I noticed i changed the name, star stalker- space stalker- whatever you wanna call it but yeah.

[joriboltonpainting]

The Augment magazine illustration in full! I got to start off with my own basic concepts for this, which was a rare treat, then the art directors made tweaks to make it better fit the Shadowrun universe and the issue's contents. ADs: Ian King, Jennifer Brozek, and Kat Hardy

© Catalyst Game Labs

insta | cara | artstation | bluesky

[sahinduzgunart]

MATRIX REVOLUTIONS (2003) by Sahin Düzgün

[orionnocap]

VARIANT 2.0 for my etsy shop ORIONSGEAR - Etsy

[rootsinthefuture]

[inlovewithmypc]

NEW ROBOT CHARACTER 🤖

UNISERVE from Sunset System.

i love these stupid little existential robots so much oh gosh

[cyborgized]

We create ourselves out of what we consume.

[scipunk]

Videodrome (1983)

[aclickbaittitle]

What do Fiction Podcasts have to say about the future?

Whenever you write a story set years from now, how you construct the world around it creates a new way to see the future, a fictional image to a reality we could be headed towards.

Fiction podcasts love to play within the sci-fi genre, and the thousands of audio dramas they have given us new pictures of what our world could look like in the next century (or a few years closer).

In this article I want to analyze the settings in the following shows: Hello from the Hallowoods, Desperado and The Strange Case of Starship Iris.

Hello From the Hallowoods

Hello From the Hallowoods welcomes us to a world ravaged by black rains and capitalism’s greed. After a natural (but man-made) disaster involving acid rain and flooding the world’s successions gave birth to two different types of beings: those who prefer to dream in a company’s “Prime Dream” and those who stay awake to continue living.

Even though the world is post-apocalyptic on paper, it never feels like it. Rather it is enchanted, there are woods where gods, revenants, devils, giants and zombies fall in love with themselves and with each other, places where community is found.

This, I attribute this to the fact that most characters don’t lament a nebulous “end of the world”, since this is the world they have always been living in and they are going to make the best of it: find family, friends, lovers, build homes and destroy bigots.

You leave the world of Hello From the Hallowoods knowing that even a doomed world is worthy of being awake for.

Desperado Podcast

Desperado Podcast also takes us to a world that was looted, but this time mainly by religious colonialism. 

Neo-colionalism has made itself tangible through genocides and direct targeting to believers that worship other than the “Old man in the Sky”.  In its first episode a community in México which revere La Catrina (a goddess in the show inspired by a popular figure in mexican art) is wiped out by the crusaders. 

From there our protagonist Elio is the sole survivor of his people, however all is not lost as he teams up with Talia (the chosen of Baron Samedi) and Shinji (whom I believe is a death kami?).

Elio now literally carries the memories of his community as the vessel for her goddess. Likewise in Desperado, the magic of the characters is the legacy their ancestors gave them, and it is what keeps them alive in the violent world. 

Though if we are ever to worry that our protagonist could fall into its clutches, the structure of the world soothes our preoccupations. You see, it is the characters within the story that are narrating their own experiences to the audience so we know that after all the pain, they ended up safe.

What Desperado tells us about the future is that, even with the ongoing genocides, white-washing of our culture, and neo-colonialism in general we will end up victorious in the end, and that our history will be forever within our memory.

The Strange Case of Starship Iris

The Strange Case of Starship Iris, is the most sci-fi audio drama out of the bunch. It follows the crew of the Rumour, a smuggler's ship, as they try to uncover the dark secrets of the Federation and evade persecution.

As with the other two properties, the future is not an easy world, but our characters are making the most of it.

In a post-war galaxy, the crew of the Rumour is smuggling space-ship parts, medicine, and erotic magazines until they find a help alarm coming from the Starship Iris and rescue biologist Violet Liu. From there they are involved in a mystery which, if the truth comes to life, they could be charged with treason against the Intergalactic Republic. 

Throughout the two seasons of the podcast, Violet Liu and company heal together the scars that the war and its result: the Intergalactic Republic left them. They fight against the government not only through robberies, infiltration, and coordinated efforts with rebel groups but also by eating latkes, drinking, singing shanties, and getting gay jewish married.

To conclude

if queer podcasts are telling us something about the future, it is that it may be equally messed up as the present but that queer, disabled people of color will exist beyond the end of the world and that even in the bleakest of futures we will continue to love and thrive.

[theactioneer]

Cyber-Tracker 2 (Richard Pepin, 1995)

[nenoname]

“To what extent must a timeline diverge from its determined path before a parallel world is formed? How far must boundaries be pushed to ensure that it will persist when its own origin no longer exists? Although it is undeniable that Time and Space are of different beasts entirely, their existence are irrevocably intertwined. In the past thirty years of research, it was determined that there is one undeniable barrier to altering the past. With a single exception granted by rulers of time itself, any attempts at time manipulation have been proven to be deterministic, any alterations to the timeline has already and will always happen. The result is that Time, for the most part, will continue flowing in a single continuous stream. But what if Space itself could be harnessed to circumvent this certainty? To be simultaneously dead and alive, united and separated, knowing and ignorant. To alter Space to alter Time to alter Space. To exist without a true origin. To react before being given cause for action. How far can a contradiction distort the very fabric of existence so it would bend to human will? How much will it take to undo my mistakes?" “…Yeesh. And here I thought my version of Sixer was getting overprotective.”

in which alternative worlds are thrown into an au already filled with confusing time paradoxes and a depressed old man is about to make his grief everyone else's problem