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Frontiers in CommunicationScience fiction audiovisual narratives function as spaces for cultural and design experimentation in which technological interfaces, interactions, and imaginaries are visually articulated before their material realization.
Cristián Londoño-Proaño
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TV Series, 2012 This paper is an examination of the ways in which the science fiction series Star Trek of the 1960s sheds light on a crucial moment in American history, the social context of which includes political turmoil and the questioning of mainstream values.
Donna Spalding Andréolle
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A Soft Robotic Fish With a Dielectric Elastomer Actuator Body and Negative Stiffness Spine
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This work introduces a bio‐mimetic soft robotic fish driven by fiber‐reinforced dielectric elastomer actuators integrated as its body. By prestretching this active skin against a flexible spine, a negative stiffness system is created, enabling large‐amplitude bending.
Markus Koenigsdorff +4 more
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Star Trek and False Infinities
, 2016 Star Trek, through fictional narrative, conveys what is the prime philosophical debate of the modern era. On the one hand, there is Karl Marx and his prominent revolutionary acolyte, Leon Trotsky (with Star Trek’s creators making direct reference to both
Gonzalez, George A, George A. Gonzalez
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Transformative Works and Cultures, 2014 Video interview and transcription of subject Kandy Fong, an early Star Trek vidder. Part of the OTW Oral History Project (http://transformativeworks.org/projects/oral-history).
Francesca Coppa
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Reflection of Post-Economic Problems in Science Fiction Series “Star Trek” and “Babylon 5” [PDF]
AlterEconomicsThe article examines “Star Trek” and “Babylon 5” as components of American political culture and collective memory, focusing on their portrayal of economic issues.
Maksym W. KYRCHANOFF
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Zeitschrift für Fantastikforschung, 2020 Review of Rabitsch, Stefan, Gabriel Martin, Wilfried Elmenreich und John N. A. Brown, Hg.. Set Phasers to Teach! Star Trek in Research and Teaching. Springer, 2018.Publisher's note: This article was originally published as part of issue 8.1.
Steven Wosniack
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After the asthmas: Star Wars and Star Trek [PDF]
European Respiratory Journal, 2017 The Lancet commission on asthma proposes new paradgims; especially to ask “what asthma do I have?”http://ow.ly ...
Bush, A, Pavord, I
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Smart Nanotechnologies for Multimodal Neuromodulation and Brain Interfacing
Advanced Science, EarlyView.Recent advances in smart nanotechnologies are expanding the toolbox for brain interfacing, from wireless neuromodulation and high‐resolution sensing to targeted delivery within the central nervous system. By combining responsive nanomaterials with bioinspired design, these platforms enable multimodal interactions with neurons and glia, while also ...
Tommaso Curiale +6 more
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Zombies, Star Trek, and International Relations
, 2016 The prime optimism of Star Trek, and by implication of humans, is that all able-minded people are capable of speculating about the absolute and the desire to know the absolute is common to the vast majority of us. It is this shared desire that, according
Gonzalez, George A, George A. Gonzalez
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