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Future Life - We Read the Future
We at Future Life think that science fiction has many fascinating ideas about our future life. Future Life is a unit of the Wetzlar Library of the Fantastic. The Library holds more than 100,000 works of science fiction – this enormous pool of existing ideas can be an interesting starting point for future narratives that help product developers, researchers and organizations to approach their questions about innovation and development from a completely different perspective.
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Images of Artificial Intelligence
Most images of AI we see in publications come from stock image libraries. They tend to be self-referential instead of really engaging with the proliferating applications of AI. By showcasing some alternative approaches and making these available, Images of AI hopes to inspire users, creators and commissioners of stock images to think more carefully about what they would like to communicate and how this can be presented in a more authentic, inclusive and creative way.
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Asian Futurisms and Speculative Fictions
Many science fiction writers have often insisted that science fiction is not about the future, but about the present. The website of the National Museum of Asian Art provides an interesting gateway to Asian futurisms and speculative fictions. The show had to be postponed due to the pandemic, but now it can introduce films from the speculative fiction genre with origins ranging from Southeast Asia to the Middle East.
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Popular political science
Dr. Isabella Herman is board member of the Berlin-based foundation Stiftung Zukunft, as well as an author and expert about the relevance of science fiction in politics and society. She is very active in promoting the genre’s potential to reveal what humans expect from a desirable future.
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