Science fiction?

He's very fond of science fiction.

A sci fi space transport

It's already happening. It's not science fiction.

Is this science fiction? No, because I'm wearing the first application of this technology.

I like science fiction better.

It's a magical realist novel.

Many of you will realize that I'm ripping a bit off of the science fiction writer Vernor Vinge's notion of a technological singularity, where a number of trends accelerate and converge and come together to create, really, a shockingly new reality.

We live longer. We have access to technology that would have seemed like science fiction just a few years ago.

I got an interesting phone call once from Columbo, from the late Arthur C. Clarke, who said, I want to see what's going on.

This is not fiction, nothing at all.

Try to remember... this is fiction that I've written, fantasy

When I grew up and realized that science fiction was not a good source for superpowers,

A science fiction adventure game set in a bleak post apocalyptic vision of the future

FX 8 Sci fi

One of the things that's changed here, in the last 150 years since Jules Verne had great science fiction concepts of what the underworld was like, is that technology has enabled us to go to these places that were previously completely unknown and speculated about.

Right? It's not what it says it is. It's not really the magic kingdom.

Tom likes science fiction.

Spoken like a petit bourgeois.

You will say, Okay, this is nice a slide created in 10 minutes.

When I grew up and realized that science fiction was not a good source for superpowers, I decided instead to embark on a journey of real science, to find a more useful truth.

MT This faith in the fictional is essential for any kind of theatrical experience.

No, it wasn't a vision. It was quite real.

I just imagined it everywhere, which has happened.

The Impact Illusion in Science

Probably as small as Mandrake Falls.

So one of my favorite projects was bringing all this stuff together in an artistic display of an android portrait of science fiction writer Philip K. Dick, who wrote great works like, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

And here's a secret from the scientific literature for you.

Robin Ince Science versus wonder?

I love the science fiction movies.

He does say that, and we think he's being unrealistic and sort of spiritual and highfalutin. Nice for him to say it, but I can't do that.

I'll come back another time.

Vercors' famous novel

I don't think he has more than I have, but he's clever enough to create some himself.

No. So many new children came in today. Haven't you met her?

So I said, What sort of things?

All of the magic, I think, that may well be taken away by science is then replaced by something as wonderful.

I don't know why it's impossible, but, even for a moment, if you did assume that it's impossible I have a quotation from Sir Arthur C. Clarke, the science fiction writer whom I met in Colombo, and he said something which completely solves this problem.

Anthony Atala's state of the art lab grows human organs from muscles to blood vessels to bladders, and more. At TEDMED, he shows footage of his bio engineers working with some of its sci fi gizmos, including an oven like bioreactor and a machine that prints human tissue.

We've been surrounded by images of space our whole lives, from the speculative images of science fiction to the inspirational visions of artists to the increasingly beautiful pictures made possible by complex technologies.

From dreamy violins...

Are you trying to tell us this is an illusion?

You bring in science, and it ruins the magic.

Stop for a moment and ask, why that conceit?

You know, it's only a short hop fromthe twilight zone to dodge city ingunsmoke.