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Why Do I Love Sci-fi?
Sci-fi has always represented potential and possibilities to me.
As a kid, I wanted a lightsaber. I mean, c’mon, who wouldn’t? Laser sword! So cool!
Rockets leaving Earth and orbiting the planet are amazing. Probes into the solar system expand our knowledge. But how awesome would it be to board the Millennium Falcon or Serenity and visit different worlds moving and/or smuggling cargo?
Exploring new worlds with a crew like the original or next-gen Enterprise would be thrilling.
Sci-fi might also paint dark, post-apocalyptic pictures of our future as well — but even that can be informative. The Matrix is somewhere I would rather not wind up, and most of the cyberpunk futures are so plausible that we can and should use them to inform us to consider the path we’re taking as a society.
But my love of sci-fi is all about the potential and possibilities it represents. The technologies we could create, the society that could rally together and celebrate our diversity, and leaving this solar system to see what and who else is out there are exciting ideas.
Sci-fi has inspired numerous technologies that were once fantastic, but are commonplace today. Cell phones, personal computers and data devices, the internet, and the information connected…
