From 'E.T.' to 'Blade Runner,' how the summer of 1982 changed cinema forever; NPR, Fresh Air, July 31, 2024

Tonya Mosley , NPR, Fresh Air; From 'E.T.' to 'Blade Runner,' how the summer of 1982 changed cinema forever

"MOSLEY: Well, a couple of years later, then, there's "Tron"...

NASHAWATY: Yeah.

MOSLEY: ...Which is about a computer hacker who is abducted into the digital world. What did Disney learn from "The Black Hole" that then maybe helped them with the success of "Tron?"

NASHAWATY: Yeah. I mean, I think it learned that it has to gamble in order to stay alive, and, yes, "Black Hole" had been sort of an unsuccessful gamble, or at least a push, but they knew that this is the way they had to go in order to stay relevant and to stay in business."

‘It’s not climate change, it’s everything change’: sci-fi authors take on the global crisis; The Observer via The Guardian, July 9, 2023

David Barnett, The Observer via The Guardian; ‘It’s not climate change, it’s everything change’: sci-fi authors take on the global crisis

"Science fiction has always sounded a warning about human behaviour and its possible consequences, she adds. “It deals with a futuristic imagining based on the scientific, moral and social principles of the ‘now’ – and the author taking them a step further, into the ‘then’.

“Whether it’s the imaginings of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and a dystopian future cowed by mass surveillance and regimentation of its people or Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, with its patriarchal and white supremacist control over women’s bodies – science fiction has shown readers what can happen should the worst actions of society follow an upward trajectory and become a dystopian style-future.”"

Pop Culture, AI And Ethics; Forbes, February 24, 2019

Phaedra Boinodiris , Forbes; Pop Culture, AI And Ethics

"In this article, I would like to take the opportunity to do a deep dive into three of the show’s episodes and offer a Design Thinking framework for how to adopt a thoughtful approach on AI implementations. Warning- there are spoilers!...

We need to continuously ask ourselves these 4 questions: How can humanity benefit from this AI/tech? What products and services can you imagine in this space? How might AI be manipulated, or unintended consequences lead to harmful outcomes? What are the suggestions for a responsible future?"

X Minus One - The Martian Death March; OldTimeRadioDownloads.com, originally broadcast 9/8/1955

[Podcast 23 min. 19 sec.] X Minus One - The Martian Death March:

"NBC net. "The Martian Death March". The story of man's inhumanity to Martians. An allegory of the westward expansion and the mistreatment of the native Americans."