The Golden Age of skill fable is long over . But some of the genre ’s cracking moments have n’t arrived yet . There are major landmark in the history of science fiction that are just on the sensible horizon — and some of them could make it in your lifetime . Technology may have caught up to science fiction in some areas , but it ’s live to be transform the musical style in others .
Here are 10 turning point in the history of science fabrication that could be hap in the next few decades .
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gravely , has this not already happened ? I did a lot of searching through the list of retiring candidate and did n’t see any game . And it ’s not that long ago that a graphical novel or laughable had never been nominated for a Hugo — and now , of course , we have the “ Best Graphic Story ” category . But in the age of Mass Effect and Portal , it seems inevitable that a game will be nominated — peradventure in the “ Best Dramatic Presentation , Long Form ” category ? Some of the rich storytelling and good worldbuilding in skill fable is happening in game right on now , and who knows how complex they ’ll be 10 years from now .
Again , heavily to think this has n’t already happened . We ’ve already hadthe first science fable movie shot in blank . And commercial-grade infinite flight is produce gaudy and easier , with the launch of outer space tourism in our very near future . It ’s just a thing of time before some science fiction author — either someone already famous , or an challenging up - and - comer — decides to take a tripper up there . Or peradventure someone living in space will determine to write an SF novel ? ( Update : Various people have signal out that Buzz Aldrin and other astronauts compose or co - wrote SF novels after return to Earth . So I guess the only affair that has n’t happened is an already - established SF writer conk out to blank space , or someone writing an SF novel while in blank . )
https://gizmodo.com/nasa-may-let-you-see-the-first-science-fiction-movie-fi-5878150
China is becoming one of the biggest markets for U.S. science fabrication movies — expert say it ’s just a subject of prison term before China represents as much boxful - part Johnny Cash as the U.S. , and James Cameron say his Avatar sequels will be geared towards China . But that relentless demand for big - budget scientific discipline fable spectaculars will drive the Chinese to make more of their own — and soon enough , the Chinese answer to Transformers or Star Trek will be ruling the U.S. box office , too .
Once humans go back to the Moon , it ’s inevitable that we ’ll need to take advantage of the setting to create the first Lunar thriller actually film on the Moon . Just envisage the vistas you could get with an IMAX camera . Or at the very least , we ’ll be sending more robots to the Moon — and these could include non - human doer and “ camera crews , ” film some exciting lunar action mechanism sequences for the umptieth Mission inconceivable film .
We may or may not get fully immersive virtual realism , that lets you smell the flowers and touch the scenery in a practical Earth , in the next few X — but it seems likely that we ’ll get really strong augmented reality , as Google Glasses and other vesture become received consumer items . And the next frontier might be interactive storytelling where you get to control a sketch wight , or a naturalistic - looking alien — using motion - gaining control . You coiffure up a cheat in your living room , and then you get to be Andy Serkis .
And by “ hit , ” I think new episodes rack up around 10 million unequalled viewers within a week after go up , and the genius and producers are make enough money from advertising and subscription to buy a overnice house . Advertiser - supporting television is an unsustainable fashion model , that ’s going to collapse in the brass of DVRs and the popularity of online streaming — and insurance premium cable wo n’t be able to clean up all the slack . So at some point , someone is going to find a model for producing a TV show for the internet and VOD that actually makes tons of money — and I count the first one will be a science fiction show . Because skill fabrication devotee are early adopter .
We’realready testing learning ability implants on monkeysand finding that they can , indeed , better cognitive ability . So it ’s only a subject of time before humans get brain implant too — and they wo n’t just be for the great unwashed with afflicted cognitive function . The first generator of a skill fiction novel to use mental capacity implant may or may not publicize that fact , bet on how much prejudice there is against early adopter of this tech — but I play that Holy Scripture will be something special .
https://gizmodo.com/scientists-make-monkeys-smarter-using-brain-implants-c-5943379
We ’ve had passel and spate of novel about Mars , but we ’ve never had a novel written there . Yet . There ’s a lot of talk of establish a Mars settlement in the next twosome decades — Elon Muskwants to send 80,000 the great unwashed to the Red Planet — and it seems like a good stakes that we ’ll have at least some humans living there by mid - hundred . The biggest question : Will the first science fiction author on Mars be someone who ’s already illustrious , or someone who just start writing on Mars and becomes a new publishing star ?
https://gizmodo.com/spacex-founder-unveils-plan-to-send-80-000-people-to-ma-5963349
We ’re already able-bodied todo way more with nanoscale engineeringthen we could a few year ago . How long before we can create nanoscale photographic film sets — bring a new meaning to the estimate of filming miniatures ? Or create a scale replication of a city , down to the diminished details , to be destroyed in a big calamity sequence ? How long before we practice nanoscale materials to transform an actor ’s war paint in real - time ? Nanomachines could be the next transformative waving in movie - making , along the lines of gesture - seizure and CG effect .
https://gizmodo.com/8-incredible-nanotechnologies-that-actually-exist-today-5967198
It probably wo n’t be using the same painful writing process that you or I use to try and pound out a body of work of fiction — instead , it ’ll be using algorithms to do a lot of the oeuvre . The outcome may be an approximation of a human employment of fiction , or it may be something much strange . Just as AIs are already writing telecasting games by sourcing computer code from existing game , AIs may study existing novels to compute out how to create new single . The result may or may not be fantastic — but it ’ll definitely be a alone take on the genre .
Thanks to Annalee and George for suggestions !
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