And, as one might have guessed, it was described in Sci-Fi novels first, then built in Japan and, finally, brought to California for inspection by the digerati.
An Adventure in Space and Time will tell the story of the genesis of the BBC sci-fi drama in the early 1960s.
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In "Argo" he stars as Tony Mendez, a CIA agent who poses as a sci-fi filmmaker in a risky plot to rescue Americans in Tehran.
Riseborough, 31, who has had roles in Shadow Dancer, Never Let Me Go, Brighton Rock and Happy Go Lucky, recently finished filming with Tom Cruise in sci-fi thriller Oblivion, set for release in April.
It was like watching a bad sci-fi movie in which aliens suck up the brains of earthlings.
Singhal, who joined Google 12 years ago, emphasized a vision of search based on the sci-fi vision in Star Trek.
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There is little here that would not have crossed the minds of sci-fi enthusiasts in the nineteen-fifties, and, for all its digital novelty, the movie has the distinct air of a throwback.
Among the perks of doing it at HBO, they say, was the ability to explore the sci-fi genre in the way other series on the network have done the cop and mob genres.
One thing we can confirm, though, is that it has a camera on board to beam back images and (per the picture to the right) Seiko Epson has all kinds of sci-fi delusions in mind for its future uses.
The "Killer Bs, " as the triumvirate is known in sci-fi circles, constituted a unique panel at the first Internet Everywhere CEO Summit in San Francisco.
An online payment system not unlike PayPal, the company says the plain-sounding-but-ominous-in-a-sci-fi-way Credits will streamline commerce on Facebook (games first), and, with Zuckerberg and Co. taking a 30% cut of every transaction, perhaps fatten the bottom line one day.
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Launched in July 2000, Edward's show on the Sci-Fi Channel regularly pulls in 600, 000 households, impressive by cable standards.
He is up against Sophie Gane for her performance in sci-fi short Aurora and George Wallace for The Happy Lands.
According to experts, the sci-fi scenarios depicted in The Matrix, and Star Trek's 'Holodeck' are now comprehendible realities in the future.
Mr. MILLER: To be honest, a lot of the acceptance speeches in Sci-Tech, there's more of a problem of them being too short sometimes.
When it relies on the computer, it delivers breathtaking effects, such as liquid hydrogen trees, which are as majestic as anything in sci-fi artwork.
That's why making robotics accessible and affordable is so important, and why I believe we're finally poised to build the robots that we fell in love with in sci-fi movies decades ago.
But the best sci-fi is grounded in reality.
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By 1996 he was hosting morning segments on CNet's The New Edge (a tech-themed TV show that aired on what was then the Sci-Fi channel) in San Francisco and a radio show in Los Angeles.
"The phrase 'Renaissance Man' was derived from him, " says David S. Goyer, who has spent a lot of time studying and pondering him, and has created "Da Vinci's Demons, " a sci-fi thriller set in the 1400s.
His acquisition of two electric guitars from 1955 inspired the revved-up new song "21st Century Blues, " in which the boyhood fan of sci-fi books pines for the flying cars and Mars colonies predicted in the Space Age.
Developed by San Francisco-based Echo Team, Crazy Boat puts players at the helm of a boat in a weird sci-fi version of the Pacific coast, where creepy undersea monsters and strange technological nightmares roam.
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Still, this silvery, futuristic unit would look at home on a bedside table in a sci-fi film.
There were 27 3-D films released in 1953, mostly horror or sci-fi.
Cox also took time to appear on British television in this period, appearing in episodes of sci-fi comedy Red Dwarf and Inspector Morse.
The public debate focused on the morality of cloning whole animals, and so it conjured up sci-fi images of a society in which everyone has identical faces, and cloned bodies are grown in vats.
Iraqi soldiers scan the waiting vehicles with an explosives detection device that looks like a weapon used by aliens in low-budget sci-fi films.
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