Learning from Science Fiction Greg Borenstein
MIT Media Lab, Playful Systems
OpenCV for Processing github.com/atduskgreg
A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.
— Fredrik Pohl
“The abrupt jolt into other flesh. Matrix gone, a wave of sound and color . . . She was moving through a crowded street, past stalls vending discount software, prices felt penned on sheets of plastic, fragments of music from countless speakers. Smells of urine, free monomers, perfume, patties of frying krill. For a few frightened seconds he fought helplessly to control her body. Then he willed himself into passivity, became the passenger behind her eyes.”
thingiverse.com/thing:277787
Design Fiction vs.
Science Fiction
“the deliberate use of diegetic prototypes to suspend disbelief about change.”
— Bruce Sterling
Keiichi Matsuda Domestic Robocop, 2010
Veronica Ranner Biophilia, 2011
Kevin Grennan Prototype Robot Armpit, 2011
BACKWARDS
BACKWARDSBEAUTIFUL BUT
Imagination -> Prediction !
Technology -> Storytelling
Technology -> Prediction !
Storytelling -> Imagination
Collaboration with John Powers2H2K
2H2KArtificial Labor
Supervised Learning
Martin Cuilla1028 emails
All science fiction is really about the present.
— Cory Doctorow
Sophia Brueckner Dan Novy
thanks. gregborenstein.com
@atduskgreg
