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*I'm finding it hard to believe that nobody was snickering during this presentation, but well, come on, it's Britain, it's the academy, people get solemn. If this was California and somebody opined ...

Bob Lutz pulls no punches about the fate of his own industry. The Future Of Design, Imagined Honestly Invisible losers, VR police states: "A History of the Future in 100 Objects" gets right what most ...

Vitra’s sprawling, architecturally diverse campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany, makes an appropriate setting for this new exhibition, ‘Science Fiction Design: From Space Age to Metaverse’. Tapping into ...

In 1966 a television series called “Star Trek” introduced the communicator, a device Captain Kirk flips open to talk to his crew remotely. Decades later, in the mid-1990s, Motorola released its ...

Paul Gong is designing the cow of tomorrow. As a speculative designer, he doesn't need a ranch or farm. Instead he designs cows on a computer and outputs the results on a 3D printer. One of Gong's ...

The design world has obsessed over a vision for the future for what seems like an eternity, and as such, created futuristic-looking objects that eventually made their way into sci-fi cinema.

The short film Slaughterbots depicts a near future in which swarms of micro drones assassinate thousands of people for their political beliefs. Released in November 2017 by academics and activists ...

“Lithopy,” a social satire, and other futuristic works, mark a new direction for digital storytelling. By Josie Thaddeus-Johns If you want to get married in the village of Lithopia, you’ll need to ...

At the beginning of the quarantine, professor Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay from the University of Oslo published a video on Facebook in which he argued that science fiction fans are rarely surprised by ...