Science Fiction
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Take a Peek Into the Future's Present With Our Live Coverage of Smithsonian's Two-Day Festival
The magazine's 2nd annual conference brings together experts, authors and visionaries in the fields of science, science fiction and technology.
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The Future is Here: What's Next For Mobile Phones?
Anthropologist Joshua Bell weighs in on new uses for cell phone technology at Smithsonian magazine's annual festival
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Patrick Stewart on His Craft, 21st-Century Science and Robot Ethics
The actor whose leading roles in “Star Trek” and X-Men have taken him into the far future, reflects on where present-day society is headed
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How America’s Leading Science Fiction Authors Are Shaping Your Future
The literary genre isn’t meant to predict the future, but implausible ideas that fire inventors’ imaginations often, amazingly, come true
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We Asked Four Teenagers to Explain "Divergent" to Old People
The first movie in the dystopian young adult book trilogy comes out this weekend. Get ready
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Why Carl Sagan is Truly Irreplaceable
No one will ever match his talent as the “gatekeeper of scientific credibility”
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From the Editor
From the Editor
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Futurists Once Dreamed of Submarine Helicopters And Spaceships Powered by Swans
The ships that we've dreamed up tell us a lot about just how badly humans have wanted to travel beyond our own world
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Ten Inventions Inspired by Science Fiction
The innovators behind objects like the cellphone or the helicopter took inspiration from works like "Star Trek" and War of the Worlds
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Replicators Have Arrived
Three-dimensional printing technology can be used in conjunction with the material and energy resources of the Moon to build new spacefaring capabilities
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Electrocybertronics
Marketing through pseudoscience
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