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Arthur C. Clarke predicted remote work, telesurgery, and mobile phones in 1964

Sixty-two years ago, Arthur C. Clarke sat down with the BBC's Horizon program and described daily life in the year 2000: doctors performing surgery on patients thousands of miles a...

Sci-Fi Writer Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Future in 1964: Artificial Intelligence, Instantaneous Global Communication,...

Are you feeling confident about the future? No? We understand. Would you like to know what it was like to feel a deep certainty that the decades to come were going to be filled wit...

Five Vintage SF Works About Traveling to the Moon

This is how we imagined humanity's first trip to the moon before Apollo 11... The post Five Vintage SF Works About Traveling to the Moon appeared first on Reactor.

What Could Possibly Go Wrong with the Profileration of AI: Read and Watch Science Fiction and Find Out

Science Fiction writers and filmmakers are sometimes accurate seers and prophets of how humanity and technology will evolve. Read Jules Verne’s From the Earth to the Moon and see h...

Motion-capture exoskeletons let violinists feel each others’ subtlest moves

World-renowned science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke (2001: A Space Odyssey, Childhood’s End) once quipped that “Any teacher who can be replaced by a computer should be.” Some pe...

Five Stories About What Happens After We Get to the Moon

Reaching the Moon is one thing; trying to settle and survive there is another matter... The post Five Stories About What Happens After We Get to the Moon appeared first on Reactor.

THE ETERNAL OBSERVER

The narrative unfolds in a future where space-mining companies have accidentally destroyed Earth, forcing humans, robots, and artificial intelligences to disperse to other planets....

Pixel Scroll 4/3/26 Hello Centaur, Give Me Doctor Scroll

(1) SNAPSHOTS FROM SPACE. NASA has an ever-growing gallery of photos taken from the Artemis II, including several of Earth: “Artemis II Multimedia: Crew Photos, Videos and Mission...

‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ Predicted Our Future 58 Years Ago—Here’s What It Got Right

In 1968, a film arrived unlike anything audiences had seen. Directed by Stanley Kubrick and written with science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey combined sci...

Quote of the day by Neil Armstrong: “I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to fa...

Pixel Scroll 4/9/26 Lest Loch Ness Fall

(1) ALIENS RECOMMENDED. James S.A. Corey (the pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, the authors of the Expanse series), picked the “Best Alien Books by Octavia E. Butler, Ted C...

Quote of the day by English physicist Brian Cox: “We explore because we are curious, not because we wish to develop gran...

Pixel Scroll 5/18/26 Scrolling Over The Same Old Ground, What Have We Found? A Pixel

(1) YOU’D NEVER HAVE GUESSED. Item #8 of yesterday’s Pixel Scroll excerpted Alec Nevala-Lee’s negative review of Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter...

Project Hail Mary's Author Lives In Fear Of Getting Called Out By Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Emphasizing the science in fiction.

WWWednesday: May 20, 2026

It looks as if the Anthropic suit is expected to progress smoothly this time. Elon Musk, on the other hand, did not have smooth sailing with his lawsuit against OpenAI CEO Sam Altm...

Space news! Artemis and the planned 'base'... Slashing NASA science... and no, Avi. It wasn't ET.

Well, well. I'm glad the Artemis crew made it home safe! And yes, this updated/repeat of 1968's Apollo 8 sure was a bit bigger and spiffier!*  Is it churlish of me to grumble that...

Amid the chaos and UFO (non) 'disclosures' ... actual space news!

Want some real news from space? Got some for you. But hold on. First: a moment distinguishing art from reality.I eagerly anticipate any Steven Spielberg film. His AI was - I believ...

Pixel Scroll 4/13/26 Nice Scroll If You Can Get It

(1) 2026 LOCUS AWARDS SHORTLISTS. The 2026 Locus Awards finalists have been posted at Locus Online. See the full list at the link. The Locus Awards winners will be announced May 30...

Neil deGrasse Tyson, William Shatner, and Science’s Next Great Frontier

The implications of such paradigm-altering evidence are well articulated by William Shatner in his interview. Source

Pixel Scroll 4/7/26 SFX And The City

(1) ARTEMIS II PATCH ART BY GREGORY MANCHESS. [Item by Arnie Fenner.] F&SF  artist Gregory Manchess designed the mission patch for the Artemis II Moon mission. He and Irene Gal...

"I'll buy 10 of those"—NASA science chief yearns for mass-produced satellites

"How in the hell do I get more science into space? That is my goal."

Asimov's favorite story: "The Last Question"

In 1956, Isaac Asimov wrote a short story in a single sitting that begins in 2061, with two drunk engineers asking a room-sized computer whether the universe has to end. The comput...

This wonderful clip of Douglas Adams and Tom Baker predicted AI assistants and the internet way back in 1990

When the BBC documentary Hyperland was shown on the BBC back in 1990, the public World Wide Web was still a year away from launching. Tim Berners-Lee’s first browser didn’t appear...

The Future Is Fiction

Long before engineers build the future, someone has to imagine it; that work often starts in fiction.