The racist tinge to Elon Musk’s hacking of the government eerily reflects cyberpunk’s vision of the future—especially the science fiction coming out of South Africa. President-elect Donald Trump with ...
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On September 8, 1966, Star Trek first aired in the United States, launching a cultural and technological imagination that has profoundly shaped public ...
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In 1945, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke proposed something ridiculous: satellites orbiting Earth at exactly the right altitude to stay fixed above one spot, beaming radio signals across ...