Posts by Claire L. Evans
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All Man, All Machine, All Cop: The Enhanced Personhood of ‘RoboCop’
Is Alex Murphy a cop dreaming that he is a robot, or is he a robot that only dreamed it was a cop?
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A ‘Flowers for Algernon’ for the Digital Age
On Spike Jonze’s ‘Her.’
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The Year in Sci-Fi: Under — and Out of — the Tech Dome
While taking out the trash last month, I passed a beetle hovering in the air. It was big, the size of an avocado pit, and had the chitinous, iridescent hide of a museum specimen. There was something about the way it hung there, almost immobile, the thick buzz of its wings: I immediately took it […]
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Underselling the Overview: Gravity and Lowercase-‘s’ Space
The Futurist is a periodic dispatch from the front lines of tomorrow — a gleefully wigged-out examination of science, science fiction, technology, culture, and all their lunatic fringes. To paraphrase Douglas Adams, we will think the unthinkable, do the undoable, and eff the ineffable. In the mid-1970s, the U.S. State Department prohibited the internal use […]
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Big Smart Objects: Drone Culture and Elysium
The Futurist is a periodic dispatch from the front lines of tomorrow — a gleefully wigged-out examination of science, science fiction, technology, culture, and all their lunatic fringes. To paraphrase Douglas Adams, we will think the unthinkable, do the undoable, and eff the ineffable. In the canonical 1970 Richard Matheson science fiction story, Button, Button, […]
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Staying Ride-or-Die for Sci-Fi in a Game of Thrones World
The Futurist is a new, periodic dispatch from the front lines of tomorrow — a gleefully wigged-out examination of science, science fiction, technology, culture — and all their lunatic fringes. To paraphrase Douglas Adams, we will think the unthinkable, do the undoable, and eff the ineffable. Season 3 of Game of Thrones is over, and I’m going […]
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Songs of the Week: With Special Guest Claire L. Evans of YACHT
This week we’re handing the Songs of the Week mic over to Claire L. Evans, sci-fi sage, sometime model, and one half of the conceptual pop group YACHT. Those of you in the Los Angeles area can catch them this weekend headlining at the Santa Monica Pier for 98.7’s All Bands on Deck! show, and […]
