science fiction

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Review of Books
  2/26/2023
  

  30 Years Later, "Falling Down" Still Shows the Shallowness of Suburbanites' Views of the City

  by Carl Abbott

  Set in a moment of economic upheaval, racial conflict, and media-driven fear of crime, Joel Schumacher's film reflected the degree of separation between America's suburbs and cities. Today, it's necessary to recognize that its portrayal of hostility and alienation isn't inevitable. 

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• 6/19/2022
  

  Will Artificial Intelligence be the Agent of Capitalism's (and Humanity's) Creative Destruction?

  by Jim Castagnera

  Between science fiction and the political economy of the present, the author wonders if artificial intelligence will constitute humanity's successor species. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  1/4/2022
  

  Is Now a Good Time to Mention that "Soylent Green" Was Set in 2022?

  "The movie's dystopian future bears some distant similarities to reality, with climate change already exacerbating hunger and poverty and one giant corporation that could one day control pretty much everything."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/28/2020
  

  Seven ‘Twilight Zone’ Episodes that are Eerily Timely During the Coronavirus Pandemic

  Some “Twilight Zone” stories are especially relevant to life under self-quarantine, and some episodes of the classic series can be a diverting emotional escape.

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• SOURCE: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/12/29/the-year-in-chinese-science-and-science-fiction.html
  12-29-13
  

  The Year in Chinese Science—And Science Fiction

  by Jeffrey Wasserstrom

  In 2013 China joined the short list of countries who have landed on the moon, but Chinese science fiction had been dreaming of just that for decades.