A presentation I gave as a Teaching Assistant for Network Technologies and Society in Fall 2012. I instructed them in the history and background of science fiction. This was especially in the context of applying the concepts of technology development they had learned all semester to the story worlds they were creating.

1. Science Fiction Prototyping:
Designing the Future With Science Fiction
Jeremy E. Pesner
with inspiration from
D. Linda Garcia

2. Brand New
http://blog.earbits.com/online_radio/li
st-brand-news-best-albums/

3. The History of Technology
http://comicsecomics.blogspot.com/2009/10/happy.htm
l

4. How to Move Forward?
http://audentis.wordpress.com/2008/11/10/adopting-
technology-transforming-society-the-internet-and-the-
reshaping-of-civil-society-activism-in-indonesia/

5. Shall We Play a Game?
http://interns.barrelny.com/getting-over-terminal-phobia/

6. A Lesson in Creative Writing
http://this.org/magazine/2009/07/27/creative-
writing-degrees-cash-cow/

7. What is Futurism?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Umberto_Boccioni_001.jpg

8. Herman Kahn
http://ralphdeeds.hubpages.com/hub
/Scene_from_Dr_Strangelove__vide
o

9. World Future Society
http://consciouscreativity.com/world-future-society/

10. Scenario Planning
http://ccsincite.com/strategic-tools/scenario-planning.html

11. Many technologies
http://www.ist
ockphoto.com
/stock-
illustration-
6701568-
caveman-
with-tools.php
http://en.wikipedia
.org/wiki/Solar_cel
l
http://krishiworld.com/2012/06/19
/biotechnology-in-agriculture-
part1/

12. Hard vs Soft Science Fiction
http://sachacody.blogspot.com/2010/08/are-you-hard-or-soft-now.html

13. Fiction Inspires
http://www.ifans.com/forums
/threads/vp-for-design-at-
samsung-insists-he-didnt-
copy-apple.372963/page-2
http://errorstatistics.blogspot.com/2011/12/
do-chronic-cell-phone-users-have.html
http://suckerpunchcinema.com/main/2010/08/
minority-report-short-story-to-big-screen/
http://www.ripten.com/2010/09/
26/watch-kinects-mauler/kinect-
playing/

14. Technology Inspires
http://reboot.wikia.com/wiki/User_talk:Preator
http://www2.fbi.gov/publications/leb/2009/april2009/per
spective.htm
http://maximizedemulatio
n.wordpress.com/2010/0
5/24/virtual-boy-
emulator-works-near-
perfectly/
http://visionmachine.net
/

15. “The best way to predict the future....
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/R2-D2

16. ...is to invent it.” - Alan Kay
http://dvice.com/archives/2007/08/new-roombas-will-get-thousands.php

17. Prototyping
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/fireworks/articles/cooper_prototyping.html

18. Robots in Church
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RobotReligion

19. Irrational Behavior
http://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/3751695/Damn+cat/

20. Robot personas
http://wallcandyarts.com/blog/tag/robot-wall-decals/

21. Were-Tigers
http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/weretiger?before=1346862035

22. Monitoring System
http://www.tvprogear.com/pages/Monitoring.aspx

23. Identify Tiger by Gait
http://holly-pedia.blogspot.com/2012/03/tiger-
running.html

24. Five Step Prototyping Process
Pick Your
Science/
Build Your World
Ramifications of
Science on
People
What Did We
Learn?
Scientific
Inflection
Point
Human
Inflection
Point

25. #1: Pick Your Science & Build Your
World
http://www.confidencecenter.com/prod34.ht
m

26. #2: Scientific Inflection Point
http://math.tutorvista.com/calculus/inflection-
point.html

27. #3: Ramifications of the Science on
People
http://thedailyomnivore.net/2012/11/01/science-for-the-people/

28. #4: Human Inflection Point
http://math.tutorvista.com/calculus/inflection-point.html

29. #5: What Did We Learn?
http://gameninjax.blogspot.com/2011/06/mortal-kombat.html

30. When Science Came to Science
Fiction
http://www.feedbooks.com/boo
k/91/frankenstein
vs
http://www.singularitysymposium.com/laws-
of-robotics.html

31. Intent
http://pastorerickson.com/?p=3743
http://globaltechnurse.wordpress.com/2010/12/17/the-
future-of-nursing-and-global-technology/

32. Cory Doctorow
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Doctorow

33. What Did Asimov Predict?
http://www.androidworld.com/prod22.htm

34. Little Brother
http://craphound.com/littlebrother/download/

35. Gait Recognition
http://me.queensu.ca/People/Deluzio/Gait.html

36. I, Robot (redux)
http://www.amazon.com/Robot-Doctorows-Futuristic-Tales-February/dp/B001U5FFTA

37. Does This Remind You of Anything...?
http://bbushner.wordpress.com/2010/01/02/if-ma-bell-had-lived/

38. I, Rowboat
http://gifthunger.com/party-gifts/row-boat-salad-bowl/

39. Transhumanism
http://vigilantcitizen.com/musicbusiness/transhumanism-
psychological-warfare-and-b-e-p-s-imma-be/

40. It's a Continuum
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1954347
/

41. A Process, Not a Prediction
http://legacy.mos.org/eie/engineering_design.php

42. Narrative Tension
http://bos-sulap.blogspot.com/2011/07/creation-narrative-tension-in-novel.html

43. Algis Budry's Seven-Point Plot
 A person...
 In a place...
 Who has a problem.
 The person intelligently tries to solve the
problem and fails...
 Things get worse...
 Until it reaches a climax.
 Outcome.

44. Time for a Break
http://airealapparel.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=185

45. Science Fiction in Other Media
http://thehoardingproject.org/media

46. Don't Worry – Typing is Just Fine
http://www.rockingham.k12.va.us/resources/typing.htm

47. Understand the Strengths
http://joyreactor.com/post/41951
1

48. Georges Melies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_M%C3%A9li%C3%A8s

49. Realism in Vision
http://www.themeparkinsider.com/flume/201109/2666
/

50. 2001: A Space Odyssey
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_9000

51. Skipping over Moon til Next Week
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cheryl-
j/3979815937/sizes/m/in/photostream/

52. Comics
http://sequart.org/magazine/3472/tensions-between-text-and-
image/

53. Passage of Time (through orientation)
http://www.bleedingcool.com/forums/comic-book-forum/38987-
dj-coffman-covers-arm-wally-wood-s-22-panels-always-
work.html

54. Science Fiction Saved Comics
http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-fictional-encounters-with-adolph-hitler.php

55. The Science of Superheroes
http://noblemania.blogspot.com/2010/04/showing-superman-without-showing.html

56. The Space Between Spaces
http://teachingadlit-shannon.blogspot.com/2010/09/multimodalvisual-literacy.html

57. A Picture's Worth a Thousand
Words
http://pleco.org/heh/

58. Visual Metaphor
http://www.21gag.com/every-boyfriend-
has-experienced-this-2/

59. The Supermen
http://ditko.blogspot.com/2010/08
/unusual-tales-supermen.html

60. Expressive Powers of Each Medium
http://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/3186959/Harry+Potter+Books+vs.+Movies/

61. Fiction as Experimentation
http://www.amazon.com/Usborne-Book-Experiments-
Activity-Books/dp/0746022883

62. Jimmy
www.theaquabats.com

63. Free Will
http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2012/03/th
e-will-is-caused-not-free/

64. The Gin and Tonic Test
http://www.ifood.tv/blog/the-age-of-robot-chefs-is-here

65. We Must Build Jimmy!
http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/542722

66. 3 Laws of Robotics
http://www.oricomtech.com/projects/gallery1.ht
m

67. Einstein & Hawking
http://en.wikipedia.org
/wiki/Albert_Einstein
http://en.wikipedia.o
rg/wiki/Stephen_Ha
wking

68. A Link to the Imagination
http://archann.deviantart.com/art/IMAGINATION-101986460

69. Two-Way Trade
http://depositphotos.com/12210190/stock-photo-Import-
Export-International-Trade-Two-Way-Street-Sign.html

70. We're Done!
http://www.blogrollcenter.com/news/confetti-by-artistry-in-motion/

71. ...almost
http://dcmetalreview.com/tag/disappointment
/

72. Lightning Round
http://www.coloradoeagles.com/news.php?nid=421

73. Black Swan
http://www.australianfauna.com/blackswan.php

74. Technological Determinism
http://www.knavickas.com/?p=110

75. Lever of Riches
http://www.picturesof.net/pages/110101-167356-007053.html

76. Social Construction of Technology
http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrc/script-ed/issue4/zhu.asp

77. Actor-Network Theory
Ketrina Yim. CS260—Human Centered Computing

78. The Master Switch
http://www.flickr.com/photos/leahissocool
/428373584/sizes/z/in/photostream/

79. Cognitive Surplus
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/05/ff_pink_shirky/

80. Bastard Culture
http://hijinksensue.com/2008/04/15/
godspeed-you-fancy-bastard-shirt-
is-in-the-store/#

81. The Big One - Complexity
http://www.trojanmice.com/articles
/complexadaptivesystems.htm

82. Godspeed
http://hijinksensue.com/2008/04/15/
godspeed-you-fancy-bastard-shirt-
is-in-the-store/#

83. Remember, Everyone's a Critic
http://www.explosm.net/comics/3003/