Short Stories
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"Sandkings" (George R. R. Martin)
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"I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream"
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"The Sentinel" (Clarke's story which led to 2001)
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"A Sound of Thunder" (Ray Bradbury's classic time travel story)
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"It's a Good Life" (famous Twilight Zone source story)
Tech Research Links
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7 Tech Trends that will Dominate
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Dr. Frankenstein, Call Your Office
Futurism/Retro-Futurism Links
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Better Than Human: Why Robots Will--and Must--Take Our Jobs
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Old Popular Science Covers
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20 Big Questions about Humanity's Future
Frankenstein Links
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PowerPoint of Frankenstein and Romanticism
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Volcanic Eruptions and Frankenstein/Dracula
Jurassic Park Links
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Human Genetic Engineering: How Close Are We to Gattaca?
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Overview of Chaos Theory/Fractals
2001/AI Links
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Modemac's Essay Explaining 2001
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The Smartest Machine on Earth (IBM's Watson)
Aliens
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Sagan's Demon-Haunted World (Ch. 4 - "Aliens" - p. 61)
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Sagan's "Quest for Extraterrestrial Intelligence"
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What Really Happened At Roswell?
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Where Are the Aliens? (Neil de Grasse Tyson)
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Interactive Drake Equation
Special Relativity
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Sagan's Cosmos, Episode 8 - "Journeys Through Space and Time"
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Einstein's Big Idea (PBS Nova)