Mythologies of the future

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• Mythologies of the future 🔊

  DuneStar WarsFoundationCantos Hyperion

  • is_parent Dune 🔊

    "A world is supported by four things . . . the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all

    • is_parent House Atreides ·

      “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.I will face my fear.I will permit it to pass over me and thr
    • is_parent IOTD: Dysgenics ·

      "Russia is genetically an authoritarian power.    Russia’s authoritarianism was not imposed from above but is the result of our history which ha
    • is_parent Actors & Concepts ·

      Concepts: Butlerian Jihad, Orange-Catholic Bible, Great Convention, Planetary Ecology, Zen-Sunni religion, Mentat, Prescience, Golden Path, Spice ... Actors: A
    • is_parent Bene Gesserit ·

      Truthsaying, The Voice, Prana - Bindu, Internal Organic-Chemical Control, Fertility Control, Genetic Memory
    • is_parent Lordyňa Leto III Atreides, the God(dess) Emperor of Dune ·

      What form would You adopt in order to guarantee millennia of peace for trillions of beings ?
  • is_parent Star Wars

    Campbell's monomyth + Holywood = Star Wars

    • is_parent The Fall of Anakin ·

      At the beginning, neither Anakin (nor Saruman, for that matter) could imagine betraying their ideals; yet attachment— to control and to their projected images
  • is_parent Cantos Hyperion 🔊

    Hyperion is The Canterbury Tales rewritten through Homer, the Bible, Greek myth, and modern science fiction — each pilgrim carrying one archetype of humanity t

    • is_parent 7 pilgrims, 7 archetypes 🔒 ·

      Martin Silenus (The Poet) — Homer archetype: epic-maker, obscene bard, immortality via art. Paul Duré (The Priest) — Teilhard de Chardin arch
    • is_parent IOTD: The Technocore 🔒

      In Cantos Hyperion, The Technocore is composed of following components: Stables — conservative AIs, understanding the importance of Humanity and organic L

      • is_parent Ummon says ... 🔒 ·

        Our UI spans galaxies uses quasars for energy sources the way you might have a light snackOur UI sees everything that is and was and will be and tells us selec
    • is_parent Illium & Olympus 🔒 ·

      Dan Simmons (b. 1947) is one of science fiction’s great masters of intertextuality.Following the four-book Hyperion Cantos (Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, End
    • is_parent Hegemony 🔒

      In the Hyperion Cantos, the Hegemony is a human interstellar civilization of roughly 250–300 worlds, bound together by the Hegira—humanity’s mass migration fro

      • is_parent Questio: The common framework 🔒 ·

        What does "Republic" in Star Wars, as well as "Empires" of  Dune and Foundation have in common with the "Hegemony" ?
    • contains Cyberpunk, solarpunk and other punkz

      • is_parent Neuromancer

        💧 Neuromancer (1984) by William Gibson is the novel that defined cyberpunk. Set in a near-future global sprawl, it follows Case, a washed-up hacker navigating

        • is_parent Cyberspace 🔒 ·

          "Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.
      • is_parent Schismatrix

        💧 Schismatrix (1985) by Bruce Sterling is a foundational cyberpunk / post-cyberpunk novel set several centuries in the future, after humanity has spread throug

        • is_parent Shapers 🔒 ·

          💧 Shapers – humans who use genetic engineering, psychological conditioning, and biological optimization to evolve the human body and mind. They value adaptabili
        • is_parent Mechanists 🔒 ·

          💧 Mechanists – humans who embrace cybernetic implants, mechanical augmentation, and life-extension via machinery, favoring stability, durability, and engineered
      • is_parent Baroquepunk, Steampunk & co. ·

        Baroquepunk is a speculative genre where ornament, excess, and early-modern worldviews collide with systems thinking. Inspired by Stephenson's Baroque Cycle, it
      • is_parent Solarpunk ·

        💧 Solarpunk is a speculative genre and cultural movement imagining desirable futures built on renewable energy, ecological repair, and social justice. Rooted i
      • is_parent Afrofuturism 🔒 ·

        💧 Afrofuturism is a cultural and speculative framework that reimagines the past, present, and future through African and African-diasporic perspectives, blendin
      • is_parent Nanopunk 🔒 ·

        💧 Nanopunk is a speculative genre in which nanotechnology replaces industry, infrastructure, and scarcity itself, reorganizing society around control of matter
      • is_parent Berlinpunk 🔒

        Imagine Berlin in 2300 / AE330. Is it still a city or did it turn into desert ? Or jungle ? Is UdK still planning to relocate to Tempelhof ? Do foxes still roa

        • is_parent Fazit 🔒 ·

          If cyberpunk says “the future is desperate and broken” (berlin|solar)punk insists “the future is enjoyable, repairable—and worth designing together”.P.S. pleas
      • is_parent Metaverse 🔒 ·

        "So Hiro's not actually here at all. He's in a computer-generated universe that his computer is drawing onto his goggles and pumping into his earphones. In the
  • is_parent Foundation 🔊

    The wicked problem: How to minimize harm caused by a dying Empire ?

    • is_parent Central problem of roboethics 🔒

      Trevize frowned. "How do you decide what is injurious, or not injurious, to humanity as a whole?" "Precisely, sir," said Daneel. "In theory, the Zeroth Law was

      • is_parent Moral & Method 🔒 ·

        In Foundation, the Minimalist Program is the method and the Zeroth Law is the ethical justification: both permit limited, often invisible harm or manipulation
    • is_parent The minimalist program 🔒 ·

      Asimov-Seldon's Plan unfolds as follows: establish one Foundation at the outskirts of the known Universe (Terminus) 1st Foundation 's Power base: trade, engine