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  1. Climate-fiction thriller explores Florida’s flooded future
    How will technology — and society — adapt to the dramatic effects that climate change is expected to bring? Will necessity become the mother of invention in a world of rising seas? Will it be business as usual? Or will it
    cosmiclog.com/2025/08/11/clima
    #FictionScienceClub #Books #ClimateChange #CLUBClub #Environment #FictionScience #Florida #ScienceFiction #TimChawaga

  2. How to hold the line against AI hype
    Don't call ChatGPT a chatbot. Call it a conversation simulator. Don't think of DALL-E as a creator of artistic imagery. Instead, think of it as a synthetic media extruding machine. In fact, avoid thinking that what generative AI does is actually artificial intelligence.

    That
    cosmiclog.com/2025/05/19/how-t
    #FictionScienceClub #ArtificialIntelligence #Books #CLUBClub #ComputerScience #FictionScience #Technology

  3. How science weighs the pluses and minuses of space sex
    You might think sex in space would be an out-of-this-world experience — but based on the scientific evidence so far, low-gravity intimacy isn’t likely to be as much of a high as it sounds. In fact, dwelling too deeply on the challenges of off-Earth sex and repr
    cosmiclog.com/2025/02/14/how-s
    #FictionScienceClub #Books #CLUBClub #FictionScience #Mars #MuseumOfFlight #Sex #Space

  4. Science points out paths to interplanetary adventures
    What would you do for fun on another planet? Go ballooning in Venus' atmosphere? Explore the caves of Hyperion? Hike all the way around Mercury? Ride a toboggan down the slopes of Pluto's ice mountains? Or just watch the clouds roll by on Mars?

    All those adv
    cosmiclog.com/2025/01/29/scien
    #FictionScienceClub #Books #CLUBClub #FictionScience #ScienceFiction #SolarSystem #Space

  5. Why it’ll get harder to draw the line between AI and us
    Some say artificial intelligence will be humanity's greatest helper. Others warn that AI will become humanity's most dangerous rival. But maybe there's a third alternative --- with AI agents achieving the status of
    cosmiclog.com/2024/11/05/why-i
    #FictionScienceClub #ArtificialIntelligence #Books #ChristofKoch #CLUBClub #Consciousness #FictionScience #OrenEtzioni #Technology

  6. Why it’ll get harder to draw the line between AI and us
    Some say artificial intelligence will be humanity's greatest helper. Others warn that AI will become humanity's most dangerous rival. But maybe there's a third alternative --- with AI agents achieving the status of
    cosmiclog.com/2024/11/05/why-i
    #FictionScienceClub #ArtificialIntelligence #Books #ChristofKoch #CLUBClub #Consciousness #FictionScience #OrenEtzioni #Technology

  7. Why it’ll get harder to draw the line between AI and us
    Some say artificial intelligence will be humanity's greatest helper. Others warn that AI will become humanity's most dangerous rival. But maybe there's a third alternative --- with AI agents achieving the status of
    cosmiclog.com/2024/11/05/why-i
    #FictionScienceClub #ArtificialIntelligence #Books #ChristofKoch #CLUBClub #Consciousness #FictionScience #OrenEtzioni #Technology

  8. Why it’ll get harder to draw the line between AI and us
    Some say artificial intelligence will be humanity's greatest helper. Others warn that AI will become humanity's most dangerous rival. But maybe there's a third alternative --- with AI agents achieving the status of
    cosmiclog.com/2024/11/05/why-i
    #FictionScienceClub #ArtificialIntelligence #Books #ChristofKoch #CLUBClub #Consciousness #FictionScience #OrenEtzioni #Technology

  9. Why it’ll get harder to draw the line between AI and us
    Some say artificial intelligence will be humanity's greatest helper. Others warn that AI will become humanity's most dangerous rival. But maybe there's a third alternative --- with AI agents achieving the status of
    cosmiclog.com/2024/11/05/why-i
    #FictionScienceClub #ArtificialIntelligence #Books #ChristofKoch #CLUBClub #Consciousness #FictionScience #OrenEtzioni #Technology

  10. AI goes full circle from fiction to science and back again
    Artificial intelligence has had an effect on nearly every facet of modern life --- ranging from diagnosing diseases, to applying for a job, to deciding which movie to watch. Now it's reaching back into the realm where our notions about A
    cosmiclog.com/2024/09/04/ai-go
    #FictionScienceClub #ArtificialIntelligence #Books #BotOrNot #CLUBClub #FictionScience #ScienceFiction

  11. ‘The Expanse’ team explores what happens if aliens win
    In nearly all alien-invasion tales, the puny humans somehow find a way to win --- for example, in classic novels like "The War of the Worlds," or in movies like "Independence Day" and "Battle: Los Angeles." But in a new novel by the authors of "The E
    cosmiclog.com/2024/08/08/the-e
    #FictionScienceClub #Aliens #Books #CLUBClub #FictionScience #ScienceFiction #Space #TheExpanse

  12. How de-extinction could change our destiny
    It may sound cool to bring back the woolly mammoth after thousands of years of extinction — but Douglas Preston, the author of a novel that features the revival of the mammoths, has his doubts.

    "If you take this and game it out to its logical end, you
    cosmiclog.com/2024/04/22/how-d
    #FictionScienceClub #Books #CLUBClub #Deextinction #DouglasPreston #FictionScience #Genetics #Science #ScienceFiction

  13. How de-extinction could change our destiny
    It may sound cool to bring back the woolly mammoth after thousands of years of extinction — but Douglas Preston, the author of a novel that features the revival of the mammoths, has his doubts.

    "If you take this and game it out to its logical end, you
    cosmiclog.com/2024/04/22/how-d
    #FictionScienceClub #Books #CLUBClub #Deextinction #DouglasPreston #FictionScience #Genetics #Science #ScienceFiction

  14. How de-extinction could change our destiny
    It may sound cool to bring back the woolly mammoth after thousands of years of extinction — but Douglas Preston, the author of a novel that features the revival of the mammoths, has his doubts.

    "If you take this and game it out to its logical end, you
    cosmiclog.com/2024/04/22/how-d
    #FictionScienceClub #Books #CLUBClub #Deextinction #DouglasPreston #FictionScience #Genetics #Science #ScienceFiction

  15. How de-extinction could change our destiny
    It may sound cool to bring back the woolly mammoth after thousands of years of extinction — but Douglas Preston, the author of a novel that features the revival of the mammoths, has his doubts.

    "If you take this and game it out to its logical end, you
    cosmiclog.com/2024/04/22/how-d
    #FictionScienceClub #Books #CLUBClub #Deextinction #DouglasPreston #FictionScience #Genetics #Science #ScienceFiction

  16. How de-extinction could change our destiny
    It may sound cool to bring back the woolly mammoth after thousands of years of extinction — but Douglas Preston, the author of a novel that features the revival of the mammoths, has his doubts.

    "If you take this and game it out to its logical end, you
    cosmiclog.com/2024/04/22/how-d
    #FictionScienceClub #Books #CLUBClub #Deextinction #DouglasPreston #FictionScience #Genetics #Science #ScienceFiction

  17. How rowing has changed since ‘The Boys in the Boat’
    Thanks to tectonic shifts in technology and training, Olympic-level rowing has come a long way since the University of Washington’s eight-man crew pulled off the ultimate underdog win at the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany — the achievement
    cosmiclog.com/2023/12/23/the-b
    #FictionScienceClub #Boating #Books #CLUBClub #FictionScience #Movies #Rowing #Science #Sports #Technology #UniversityOfWashington

  18. How rowing has changed since ‘The Boys in the Boat’
    Thanks to tectonic shifts in technology and training, Olympic-level rowing has come a long way since the University of Washington’s eight-man crew pulled off the ultimate underdog win at the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany — the achievement
    cosmiclog.com/2023/12/23/the-b
    #FictionScienceClub #Boating #Books #CLUBClub #FictionScience #Movies #Rowing #Science #Sports #Technology #UniversityOfWashington

  19. Supervillain tale takes aim at today’s tech titans
    There's nary a mention of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos or Bill Gates in "Starter Villain," but science-fiction author John Scalzi's wickedly funny novel finds ways to skewer the tech billionaires who rule our world without dropping names.

    Scalzi lays out a scenario in which sup
    cosmiclog.com/2023/09/19/super
    #FictionScienceClub #Books #CLUBClub #FictionScience #ScienceFiction #Technology

  20. How we’ll find the first evidence of extraterrestrial life
    When will we find evidence for life beyond Earth? And where will that evidence be found? University of Arizona astronomer Chris Impey, the author of a book called "Worlds Without End," is betting that the first evidence wil
    cosmiclog.com/2023/07/28/how-w
    #FictionScienceClub #Aliens #Astrobiology #Books #CLUBClub #Exoplanets #FictionScience #ScienceFiction #SETI #Space

  21. Chasing SpaceX: The new space race gets a reality check
    Can anyone keep up with SpaceX in the commercial space race?

    It might be one of the four companies profiled in "When the Heavens Went on Sale" --- a new book written by Ashlee Vance, the tech journalist who chronicl
    cosmiclog.com/2023/05/08/chasi
    #FictionScienceClub #AshleeVance #Astra #Books #CLUBClub #FictionScience #FireflyAerospace #PlanetLabs #RocketLab #Space #SpaceX

  22. ‘Observer’ blends way-out quantum science and fiction
    Do we each create our own reality? Could different observers create measurably different realities? It's a fantastical line of thought that has sparked scientific inquiries as well --- and now the science and the fiction
    cosmiclog.com/2023/01/09/obser
    #FictionScienceClub #Books #CLUBClub #Consciousness #FictionScience #NancyKress #QuantumMechanics #RobertLanza #ScienceFiction