Sentence examples for fiction technology from inspiring English sources

In life and fiction, technology obsolesces the moment we acquire it.

"Virtual reality is a science fiction technology, it's right up there with artificial intelligence and space travel and time travel and robots and flying cars," he said.

While that may sound like science fiction, technology companies are now working to realize such scenarios.

"My mother came through formal education, conducting, playing the piano," he said, "whereas I came to it in a world of science fiction, technology, fantasy".

Combine Overwatch soldiers are usually encountered outside City 17, and only appear in the city after a large uprising near the end of Half-Life 2. The Combine use a large array of science fiction technology.

War of the Worlds is a 2005 American science fiction technology disaster thriller film and a loose adaptation of H. G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds, directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Josh Friedman and David Koepp.

These episodes, comprising the majority of the series, dealt with paranormal phenomena, including cryptids and mutants; science fiction technologies; horror monsters; and satiric/comedic elements.

Here were genuine heroes for a drab, disaffected time, nerveless men hurtling through space at thousands of miles an hour in shiny tubes of science-fiction technology in pursuit of new worlds.

("Soft" SF is typically more concerned with exploring social aspects of the near future and of "inner space," while "hard" science fiction features technology-for-technology's-sake).

At the outset, Afrofuturism was described as a black perspective on "the politics, aesthetics and cultural aspects" of science, science fiction and technology.

His bands Parliament and Funkadelic (before he went solo in 1981) played with rock groups such as MC5 and the Stooges, and both had roots in a particular strand of black consciousness – Afro-futurism – where black music, comic art and independent film met science fiction and technology, creating a uniquely black cosmic identity.