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Vintage articles and footage from the science fiction archives.

10 Mind-Blowing Space Stories School Never Told You
For many of us (especially if you grew up watching Star Trek), space truly feels like the final frontier. Sure, school taught us about planets, gravity, and maybe a little about rockets. But what we got was just a glimpse of the safe, simplified version.
By Areeba Umair8 months ago in Futurism
Why Motorcycle Sidecars Are Making a Comeback in 2026. AI-Generated.
Not too long ago, most people thought the motorcycle sidecar was basically history. Something you’d only notice in old photos or maybe parked outside a retro café for style points. But lately, things are shifting slowly at first, then all at once. You start seeing a motorcycle with sidecar again, not just as a novelty but as something practical, useful, and honestly… kind of smart.
By Saleen Prajapat8 months ago in Futurism
AI as a Reflective Surface
Much of the confusion surrounding artificial intelligence comes from treating it as an agent rather than a surface. When people speak about AI “doing the thinking,” “creating the ideas,” or “speaking for someone,” they are often projecting agency onto a system that does not possess intention, belief, or understanding. This projection obscures what is actually happening in many real-world uses. In those cases, AI is not acting as a source of meaning, but as a surface that reflects, redirects, and reshapes what is already present.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast9 months ago in Futurism
THE HANDS THAT BUILT THE FUTURE
IV. AI: Proof in the Papers AI did not appear in a vault. It grew from decades of research: • neural networks (1950s) • backpropagation (1986)
By Vicki Lawana Trusselli 9 months ago in Futurism
Mad Max
1979 was a stellar year for horror and sci-fi blockbusters: Alien, Phantasm, The Amityville Horror, The Brood, Nosferatu the Vampyre, Dracula—and that’s just to name a few.
By Tom Baker9 months ago in Futurism
CAN’T MAKE THIS POOP UP
ABOUT THIS PROJECT This is a rendering of pent up feelings of 2026. Into technology, and adapted to the progress. Seriously, we have at our finger tips online, and live in a future my Grandma Carrie Soleta would say, "Oh, my!"This is a little comedy realistic true story written in a format to produce a fun explanation of emerging technology and change in the 21st century.
By Vicki Lawana Trusselli 9 months ago in Futurism
Star Crash
Star Crash is a wonky, bottom-feeder Star Wars rip-off from 1978, with an ensemble cast of cult movie icons, including Marjoe “Mausoleum” Gortner, Caroline Munro, Joe “Maniac” Spinell, Christopher Plummer, and—by God—the Hoff himself, David Hasselhoff, pre-"Knight Rider," pre-"Baywatch," but still every bit the sexy-bad muthafucka.
By Tom Baker10 months ago in Futurism
Dracula, Sovereign of the Damned
Dracula, Sovereign of the Damned is an anime from Toei Studios, dating from 1980, based on Marvel's Tomb of Dracula comic. Marvel's Dracula once tried to kidnap Storm until Kitty Pryde showed up and drove his blood-sucking butt out the window wielding the Star of David. Apparently, Dracula is anti-Zionist.
By Tom Baker10 months ago in Futurism
Blade Runner . Top Story - December 2025.
These days, androids might very well dream of electric sheep. In 1982, not so much. Blade Runner takes place six years in our past, as per the present timeline. Other timelines, we don't know. Perhaps there, Replicants rule the lives of meat sacks, and the Imperial Skinjobs are all as beautiful as Rutger Hauer or Daryl Hannah are in Blade Runner.
By Tom Baker11 months ago in Futurism
Star Trek: "The Tholian Web"
The Tholian Web is one of those classic episodes of TOS that transcend television. The ghostly image of a Kirk (William Shatner) caught between dimensions, waiting breathlessly (at the end literally so) for the transporter to beam him back to the ship, while the Tholian ship weaves a “Web” around the Enterprise, stranded in space as it is due to the fear of “disrupting” the dimensional shift, is one that sticks with the viewer like a good, heady shot of Saurian brandy. Oh, with such bold and breathtaking adventure awaiting, what’s an old spacer to do?
By Tom Baker11 months ago in Futurism
Stereo and Crimes of the Future
"Jomkin suggests that there must evolve a novel sexuality for a new species of man." — Crimes of the Future Before he became the cinematic master of body horror, David Cronenberg was an experimental student filmmaker who turned out works very much in line with the same sort of fixations explored almost exclusively by J.G. Ballard, whose Crash he later adapted into a film, in 1997. His early films, his first two, Stereo (1969) and Crimes of the Future (1970), explore film technique in documenting the huge, yawning architectural environment of an unspecified hospital or research facility, relegating the performers of the film to almost being secondary actors in a drama defined by geometrical shape—relegating them to the roles of insectile life, pursuing strange, even inscrutable actions, ostensibly being filmed by the watchful, clinical, and coldly detached robotic eye of the viewer, who becomes the de facto research assistant to the director, who seems to have made this film by asking his performers to improvise within the framework of derangement. What was he exploring? one wonders. The environment itself dwarfs the humanity of the filmic subjects, overpowering them in its specter of geometrical dominance and dimension.
By Tom Baker11 months ago in Futurism
Life On Demand
Introduction Yesterday I was at a work conference and my dad called me four times. Now normally I could text and say I would call back later, and that would be Ok, but despite having a state-of-the-art phone, my dad doesn't read texts because he does not know how to.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 11 months ago in Futurism