Imagined Futures: Science Fiction and Technology Collide

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Author(s): Phylis Johnson (San Jose State University, USA)
Copyright: 2022
Pages: 11
Source title: Redefining Journalism in an Age of Technological Advancements, Changing Demographics, and Social Issues
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Phylis Johnson (San Jose State University, USA)and Ian Punnett (Kansas State University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3844-9.ch002

Keywords: Digital Communications / Information Science Reference / Mass Communications / Media & Communications

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This chapter offers a glimpse into the future through the lens of science fiction authors who have served as modern-day prophets. In that sci-fi books, short stories, films, games, popular music, and TV shows have informed global culture, the news media, too, has been influenced by these transformative narratives. From the turn of the 20th century, what was once considered preposterous or even blasphemous to contemplate became everyday reality in just one lifetime. For example, it would take just 67 years after French silent film director Georges Melies' “Le Voyage dans la Lune” (1902) depicted a rocket ship poking the “Man on the Moon” in the eye before CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite would take off his trademark black-framed glasses, wipe his tears, and exhale, “Phew . . . boy,” as the Apollo 11 lunar lander softly touched down.

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