The early days of science fiction brought us visions of flying to the moon, visiting alien planets, voyaging under the sea, journeying to the center of the Earth, and traveling through time. Since then, we’ve been traveling in FTL starships, using teleporters, fighting with phasers and light sabers, working with talking robots, playing mind games with sentient AI computers, immersing ourselves in VR worlds, checking our wrist TVs/phones/computers, jacking into the Internet, and racing along highways in self-driving automobiles. These are just a few of the myriad technologies that dominate science fiction.
In our June 3 meeting, join us for a free-ranging discussion about past, present, and future SF tech that is not only altering what we write about and read, and what we see in movies and TV, but is actively shaping humanity’s present and future. Traveling in rockets to the moon, using a hand-held communicator to talk to friends around the world, and medical/cyber augmentation of the human body were all once SF tech in stories and movies. We’ll talk about these ideas and hopefully discover many more. Feel free to bring your favorite SF tech ideas, movie props, and printed images to share in the discussion.
Moderator: Alan Vincent Michaels
Location: Barnes & Noble, Pittsford
Meeting Time: June 3, 2014 from 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
