Science fiction

Throughout all events in history and through all decades of art and literature, one thing has been made abundantly clear: Humans do not enjoy oppression. Humanity is consistent in its innate desire to fight any oppressive leader or social behavior that infringes on their rights as an individual. Whether it be through social and political movements or war, humankind has shown that what every individual wants - above all else - is freedom. They crave the freedom to live as they choose, protecting…

Cyberpunk There is much controversy on the topic of whether or not technology hinders today’s generation and the influences it has on our future. Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction in a future setting, prominent for its focus on "high tech and low life". Generally centered on a conflict among artificial intelligences or a mega corporation, cyberpunk does a great job of taking the technology resources we have now and heightening them but not too much to where it doesn’t seem tangible. The…

Lewis, H. P. Lovecraft and Lord Dunsany as the most notable and famous mythology writers. The word mythopoeia was first used by J. R. R. Tolkien in the 1930s. The Authors in mythology genre integrate traditional mythology themes and archetypes into fiction. As similar to fantasy worlds or fictional universes mythology aim to evoke the detailed worlds of well-ordered histories, geographies and laws of nature. Mythology is defined as a genre in which the old Greek gods, such as Zeus, Poseidon and…

“We live in a painful world, no doubt about it. But let me tell you this: The ONLY disability in life... is a bad attitude. A positive attitude is the most combatant to life’s misfortune” (Matthew Jeffers). Charlie Gordon lives in New York and has an I.Q. of 68 at the age of 37 and two doctors, Professor Harold Nemur and Dr. Strauss, are conducting an experiment, in 1965, to boost Charlie’s intelligence. Charlie is operated on after Algernon, a white lab mouse, begins to show signs of…

“Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make you quiver” A quote written by a author, poet, and naturalist named Diane Ackerman. Most people in the society totally must have agreed to this quote. They have the same mindset, a negative one regarding to the matter of Artificial Intelligence like the fear of them surpassing human intelligence. The rest might just think that the possibility of artificial intelligence doing that is…

are toying with the concept of putting AI into our daily interaction. It's an exciting idea. But little known to us, the idea of AI has been around for a long time. It exists in movies, video games, books, and magazines. One of the most notable science fiction book about AI is the Neuromancer. The book tells us the story about the struggle between two AIs, the Neuromancer and the Wintermute, and the antagonist, Case, who a human got caught in the middle. We will exam…

This essay is an exploration on Captain B McRae and how his personality progressed in the science fiction film Wall-e. The views on the captain range from how he first came across as a babyish character who was very lazy and a rotund look like all the other people on the Axium. Moving from this idea I go on to talk about how the captain is starting to show independence in learning about how to do things for himself. My final body paragraph is about the final progress showed by the captain and…

Blade runner is a science fiction film about the future, in this futuristic scenario there are robots called replicants, these are visually indistinguishable from humans, and are exclusively used for menial or dangerous work on off-world colonies. Replicants are banned from earth, if one of them managed his way to earth, blade runners will be sent to hunt them and then retire (kill) them. Deckard, who is a blade runner, has the mission to retire four replicants who have got to earth to find a…

The movie that i watched and reminds me about Artificial Intelligence and robotics is the classic science fiction film TERMINATOR 2 and shows us what we have still to learn about Artificial Intelligence.Terminator 2 tells the story of two cyborgs sent back in time from the future,one is the T800 which is living tissue over metal endoskeleton which was performed by the most iconic role Arnold Schwarzenegger to protect the future leader of the human resistance;the other (the T1000, a more advanced…

The novel Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury, a piece of literature that has something strange. It creates a proposal for what our society would be if it was able to reach the limits, not only technological but also social and ideological. Society is subject to a regime in which helps to create an organized culture in order to have " happiness " the ideologies of Communism and capitalism were in a battle to impose their ways of thinking. This is wrong because the happiness of each person…