Science Fiction as Future

Definition

Culture tells us what it is okay to like, and new culture is often shown to us through movies. We now feel it okay to use a computer interface with gesture recognition, because we’ve seen it in Minority Report. Here, Minority Report has given us the narrative that allows us to collectively imagine a future.

In the same way, Star Trek helped us to imagine the idea of the cell phone and Bluetooth wireless device. It also helped us to deal with a future of limitless horizons and exploration found on the many social sites of the Internet. Today, the interface of the laptop is the viewing screen, and the hardware is the spaceship. The browser helps us travel to different universes at nearly the speed of light, and each new website we reach becomes a new planet.

Exploring space as a pilot has already occurred. Our spaceship is the computer, the expanding boundaries of time and space that the information space of the Internet is our Universe.