It's sometime in the distant future. Cybernetics are commonplace, androids exist, we have starships and have contacted aliens. With that in place, what is considered the "new" sci-fi?
Posted Sep 3, 2020, 5:53 PM UTC
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Holograms.
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Not all sci-fi is about cybernetics, androids, aliens, etc. Time travel, alternate realities, dystopian futures, the human mind, etc. are sci-fi topics that exist regardless of time period.
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Ah, time travel - that's a good one.
Given an infinite amount of time to explore and discover all the things that encompass our sci-fi genre today, do you think we'd eventually get to a point where sci-fi ceases to exist because it would essentially become human history?
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No, there will always be ways to fictionalize scientific advancements - scientific advancements actually lead to more sci-fi. Historical topics such as alchemy and potions are also elements of sci-fi. The human mind will forever be a source. The end of the world would never become human history.
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Historical topics such as alchemy and potions are also elements of sci-fi.
Sort of like how Star Wars is essentially knights and magic users. I completely get that. It's pretty fascinating, thinking of what may be the core of the sci-fi genre in, say, a thousand years, or ten thousand years assuming we've moved on from earth by then.
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I think when people hear the term sci-fi they lock in on a specific type of sci-fi, but in actuality it's massive. Here's an example that will probably blow your mind.
The Lake House starring Keanu Reeves is classified by and large as just a romantic drama. But, if you watch it, or even just read the description, it's completely a sci-fi film.
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Time travel, immortality, dimensional travel, transcendence into non-coperial life or rebuilding your own body however you want.
People have artificial limbs. We have a permanent space station. We have traveled to other planets. We have mapped DNA. This was science fiction 100 years ago.
Science fiction has always been about taking a concept and playing what-if with it.
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That's kind of where I'm going, those things were sci-fi, and became reality and a part of human history. Given time, knowledge, and resources, would it be possible to clear the 'bucket list' of sci-fi dreams, just rendering the genre itself a part of human history - or will there always be something out there we strive for, even if it's beyond the comprehension of our minds today.
It's just a interesting concept that popped into my head.
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Fiction and science are both way too open-ended for there to be a definitive list.
For example in real life, at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th, there were many stories written about landing on the moon. None of them involved a live video feed of the actual event. It was inconceivable of them that this would be possible.
Even shows like Star Trek, though they had the idea of a supercomputer, no one ever conceived of everyone walking around with a miniaturized computer in their pocket. They never conceived of the internet being used for something such as social media.
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If we consider this in a realistic scenario like I’d say the expanse is the closest we have to realistic sci fi.
Then these things would be very much timeless.
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Living at the bottom of the ocean or within the core of a planet.