Super interessant interview met de onderzoekers Dan Novy and Sophia Brueckner van MIT over de rol van sciencefiction in de ontwikkeling van nieuwe technologieën:
I also am in the middle of building a kinetic sound sculpture
inspired by J. G. Ballard’s short story “The Singing Statues” published
in 1971. With incredible foresight, he imagined a world where art merges
all the senses, is highly interactive, produces visual and sound
compositions using algorithms, and even responds to the thoughts and
feelings of its audience in real-time. I am trying to realize the
concepts described in the story using computer programming and other
technologies that are now available.
Overall, we want students to get an appreciation for the genre and be
exposed to a large variety of authors and styles while focusing on
books that discuss devices and other technologies that could inspire
Media Lab projects. We are hoping to inspire the students to build
functional prototypes of either ideas directly out of the books or
encourage them to take their current research and combine it with more
of a science fiction context.
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Why Today's Inventors Need to Read More Science Fiction. 'The Singing Statues' vind je overigens in het geweldige
Vermillion Sands (1971).
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