fact or fiction

Is it science fact or science fiction? Futurism presents both sides to determine the truth.

Leaps Through Time
Leaps Through Time Throughout history, people have struggled to organize time. This was necessary in order to communicate ideas and achieve common goals and it seems to have worked. Only recently did I grasp how time is a completely human construct and that it changes as we do. The more complex our technologies become the more compressed is our time, until we have become unrecognizable to ourselves, in mere generations.
By Nnnnj5 years ago in Futurism
Dream a Little Dream
I had a thought this morning that turned into a theory that would probably get me tossed into a nut house if I ever shared it. Settle in folks; it’s time for some crazy.
By Melissa Carey5 years ago in Futurism
Greece and Kenya
Lysistrata. The name of a powerful fictitious woman, and an ancient Greek play that was written, performed and watched for entertainment by only men. Aristophanes was not necessarily a feminist but he understood and recognised the power that women had, this and the fact that we’ve seen this story in our own modern world is why Lysistrata is my favourite tale.
By Grace Kent5 years ago in Futurism
Rise of the Robots @ Car is a Computer!
Fasten your seat belts. We are about to take off to witness the magical transition of one millennium into another. Rise of the Robots
By Xilla Club5 years ago in Futurism
Journeys of discovery to our subterranean world
Documentary series such as Ancient Aliens have kept me going through the “plandemic” of the past year, which has forced me to re-examine many of my perceptions of the world and the truths I was taught at school.
By Steve Harrison5 years ago in Futurism
In the contest between horror movies, Armageddon, and the earth coming to a standstill
All the World's Scariness Since childhood, I have always hated horror movies. The idea of watching an imagineered anxiety-ridden, shriek-fest, and gruesome gore unfolding when real-life scenarios have happened and continue to do so seemed nonsensical to me. Add to that mentally, emotionally, physically, and genetically, I am NOT meant to be frightened for fun. By reflex, any person trying to scare me will probably get hit with a hammer.
By The Dani Writer5 years ago in Futurism
Little Whispers
Dee Montraine had not planned on becoming a single mother (but then, who did?). When she told the news to her mother, she did not get a delighted smile or even a hug—but a slap across the face, sure to leave a bruise when the pain had settled in. The last thing Dee saw through her tears was the way her mother’s body shook as if electricity were running through her veins. There hadn’t been a need for words right then, though her mother did not do the cruel thing and throw her daughter out into the nowhere landscape of the small town where they lived.
By Jillian Spiridon5 years ago in Futurism
Dark Cloud
The "Small Black Notebook" was founded in 1788, January 26th on the shores of Weé-Rong, Gondwanaland, from the final leg of the voyage through War-ran. A leather-bound book wrapped in a Moleskine cloth to protect its thick ivory pages from the salty conditions of the exploration vessel's diminishing environment. By order of His Royal Highness King Terra Nullius III, within it's pages a petition of regulations Lieutenant Jacob Cookiecutter was to alter under his own volition and quill. Perhaps the datum for the ensuing innuendos that any black book would come to endure.
By Mary Jo Hanly5 years ago in Futurism
Did the Third Reich establish a colony inside our world?
The more research I do into the theory of a “hollow” Earth, the more plausible the notion becomes. Not so much because of the literature that exists on the subject, written during the last two centuries, but based on depictions in the ancient texts of most world religions and the architectural anomalies that appear on our planet that cannot be explained by conventional archaeology.
By Steve Harrison5 years ago in Futurism
Eco-farms
Los Angeles, January 4, 2021: I cant believe we did it. The first privately owned renewable energy startup to land a $600 million dollar initial investment from the Koch brothers. Our pitch deck must have really impressed them, we threw that shit together the night before..eating pizza and taking shots of Jäger, Zuckerberg shit. We open for a second round of investments this spring, by then we should have a lot more leverage. Me and my bros were joking over sushi last night that Bezos, Zuckerberg, and Musk would have to pool their combined net earning for the year to even come close to a number worth selling for. Our new office in Pasadena is fucking nuts. The other day I got drunk and pre-ordered four Cybertrucks, Chase called me in the morning asking about fraudulent charges to my platinum amex lol. I just told them I drank too much sake with the bros. The lady on the phone wasn’t having that shit lmao. Anyway, tomorrow I’m flying over to the eco farms just outside of Juárez Mexico.
By Struggling Writer5 years ago in Futurism
Expedition the obvious way to answer 'hollow Earth' question
In a little over five years it will be the 100th anniversary of Admiral Richard Byrd’s flight over the North Pole on 9 May 1926 and the dawn of the mystery about what the American explorer discovered there and on later missions to Antartica.
By Steve Harrison5 years ago in Futurism
Crucible of Modern Consciousness
Even in my darkest days when hope was dim and distant, I maintained a willingness to believe in an eternal light of consciousness. In the profound mystery of Life itself I found shadowy truth within and behind the impetus of thought. I know not the nature of ideas or where they come from but I am aware that they happen. I to them and they to me, we are independent benefactors of a mutually shared experience, both of us at home in our antithetical realms, separated by a thin physical margin defined by light and dark. I believe that even in death we are bound to the laws of physics, we just experience a separate side of them, the causes of which we feel here, the sources of which are shrouded by the nature of our incarnate existence. The fact is then - made evident by the fact of Life itself - that the laws of physics are capable of more than we can perceive. For lack of a better word we are talking about magic, or colloquially speaking, events or properties that evade understanding. Beliefs aside, reductionist ideology aside, we bare witness to the shackles of free will and self-aware volition, the movements of our bodies and our thoughts. Can they be explained in any other way but magic?
By Ross Wyss5 years ago in Futurism