Evolution of Science Fiction - Comprehensive  History of Science Fiction
Channel: Tom Lombardo
Date: 15/10/2023

Accelerative Evolutionary History of Science Fiction from Ancient Times to the Present
This presentation, is a special Evolution of Science Fiction, offers an accelerative “Big Picture” overview of the nature and evolution of science fiction that highlights the diverse and immense array of its visions of the future. Science fiction is the most influential form of futures thinking and imagination in our global popular culture, repeatedly throughout its history extending the boundaries of our consciousness of the future.

Its pervasive and deep impact on our planetary consciousness of the future is in large part due to the fact that as a narrative expression of holistic future consciousness, science fiction personally engages all the major dimensions of human psychology, and moreover, contrary to limiting stereotypes of the genre, addresses the “future of everything.” 

The literature of science fiction is immense and the plethora of different visions of the future is unparalleled. Anyone who is interested in how humanity thinks about the future and how humanity can think about the future, in all of its wondrous and terrifying possibilities, can not ignore or dismiss science fiction.

AI art by Tery Spataro