Visions
Incredibly it's 30 years since the release of the famous gardener-turned-VR-cyber-christ movie. So how does its future vision hold up today?
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It's New Years Eve 1999. Forget the millenium bug, things are about to take a turn for the techno-noir…
It's nearly 50 years since writer and director Michael Crichton created the robotic Westworld but it was 2016's smash hit TV series that took...
With some of the big guns in web tech recently co-operating on metaverse standards, our experts give their verdict on the potential good and...
This week marks 40 years since the release of Blade Runner. With AI still very much the hot topic, we take a deep dive...
Incredibly it's 30 years since the release of the famous gardener-turned-VR-cyber-christ movie. So how does its future vision hold up today?
Core Data: Vision: a mutually dependent hive of cybernetic organisms known as the Borg Type: Popular culture – films and TV As Seen In:...
Core Data: Vision: A digital afterlife, where users can live out eternity on a hard drive Type: Popular culture – TV As Seen In:...
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Core Data: Vision: Self-aware videogame characters Type: Popular culture – films As Seen In: Wreck-It Ralph, Ralph Breaks the Internet Envisioned: 2015-2018 Visionaries: Rich...
Core Data: Vision: Human-like synthetic lifeforms – or ‘Synths’ Type: Popular culture – TV series As Seen In: Humans Envisioned: 2015-2018 Visionaries: Sam Vincent...
2021 was, without a doubt, the year that non-fungible tokens (NFTs) hit the mainstream games industry. From individual artists finding a new way to...
Core Data: Vision: Intelligent operating systems in Her Type: Popular culture – Film As Seen In: Her Envisioned: 2013 Visionary: Spike Jonze (writer/director) Target...
Core Data: Vision: Immersive virtual reality driven by biological technology Type: Popular culture – Film As Seen In: eXistenZ Envisioned: 1999 Visionary: David Cronenberg...
Core Data: Vision: ‘Resurrecting’ the dead from their social media history Type: Popular culture – TV As Seen In: Black Mirror episode ‘Be Right...
Core Data: Vision: Entirely lifelike surrogate bodies Type: Popular culture – Film As Seen In: Surrogates Envisioned: 2009 Visionaries: Jonathan Mostow (director), Robert Venditti...
Core Data: Vision: Self-aware non-player characters Type: Popular culture – Film As Seen In: Free Guy Envisioned: 2021 Visionaries: Shawn Levy (director), Matt Lieberman,...
Core Data: Vision: Tron’s virtual world Type: Popular culture – Film As Seen In: Tron, Tron: Legacy, Tron: Uprising Envisioned: 1982, 2010 Visionaries: Steven...
Core Data: Vision: Future technology Type: Popular culture – movie As Seen In: Minority Report (based on The Minority Report by Philip K Dick) Envisioned:...