Science Fiction Prototyping by Brian David Johnson

Science Fiction Prototyping by Brian David Johnson

Science fiction is the playground of the imagination. If you are interested in science or fascinated with the future then science fiction is where you explore new ideas and let your dreams and nightmares duke it out on the safety of the page or screen. But what if we could use science fiction to do more than that? What if we could use science fiction based on science fact to not only imagine our future but develop new technologies and products? What if we could use stories, movies and comics as a kind of tool to explore the real world implications and uses of future technologies today? Science Fiction Prototyping is a practical guide to using fiction as a way to imagine our future in a whole new way. Filled with history, real world examples and conversations with experts like best selling science fiction author Cory Doctorow, senior editor at Dark Horse Comics Chris Warner and Hollywood science expert Sidney Perkowitz, Science Fiction Prototyping will give you the tools you need to begin designing the future with science fiction. The future is Brian David Johnson's business. As a futurist at Intel Corporation, his charter is to develop an actionable vision for computing in 2021. His work is called future casting-using ethnographic field studies, technology research, trend data, and even science fiction to create a pragmatic vision of consumers and computing. Johnson has been pioneering development in artificial intelligence, robotics, and reinventing TV. He speaks and writes extensively about future technologies in articles and scientific papers as well as science fiction short stories and novels (Fake Plastic Love and Screen Future: The Future of Entertainment, Computing and the Devices We Love). He has directed two feature films and is an illustrator and commissioned painter. Table of Contents: Preface / Foreword / Epilogue / Dedication / Acknowledgments / 1. The Future Is in Your Hands / 2. Religious Robots and Runaway Were-Tigers: A Brief Overview of the Science and the Fiction that Went Into Two SF Prototypes / 3. How to Build Your Own SF Prototype in Five Steps or Less / 4. I, Robot: From Asimov to Doctorow: Exploring Short Fiction as an SF Prototype and a Conversation With Cory Doctorow / 5. The Men in the Moon: Exploring Movies as an SF Prototype and a Conversation with Sidney Perkowitz / 6. Science in the Gutters: Exploring Comics as an SF Prototype and a Conversation With Chris Warner / 7. Making the Future: Now that You Have Developed Your SF Prototype, What's Next? / 8. Einstein's Thought Experiments and Asimov's Second Dream / Appendix A: The SF Prototypes / Notes / Author Biography

Brian David Johnson is in charge of the future. Future casting is the term he uses to describe how he uses ethnographic field studies, technical research, trend data, and even science fiction to provide Intel a realistic view of customers and computing. Johnson has been a trailblazer in artificial intelligence, robotics, and the use of science fiction as a design tool, in addition to revolutionizing television. In essays and scientific publications, as well as science fiction short stories and novels (Fake Plastic Love, Nebulous Mechanisms: The Doctor Simon Egerton Stories, and the upcoming This Is Planet Earth), he speaks and writes extensively about future technologies. He is an illustrator and commissioned painter who has directed two feature films.

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ISBN 13	9781608456550
ISBN 10	1608456552
Title	Science Fiction Prototyping
Author	Brian David Johnson
Series	Synthesis Lectures On Computer Science
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Year published	2011-04-30
Number of pages	190
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