Today’s post is an invitation. I ask you to propose and vote for those real materials that could have come out of a sci-fi story. And I think you deserve a bit of an explanation on how I decided to write such a peculiar post.
At the risk of sounding like a nerd, I love science fiction! I think I was hooked when I first saw Blade Runner on the cinema. Years later, my friends studying Political Sciences did a report analysing sci-fi movies and the social structures they portrayed (what is used as a money, what are the main conflicts and how are they solved, etc). It was while I join one of their very creative sessions, watching Mad Max, that I realised what science fiction is all about: what we really are, what we may become and/or what we could aspire to be. I love the freedom provided by this genre to imagine societies and technologies yet to be created.
All this introduction to tell you that when Robert Frith, Director of Superblue (design company with the most appropiate name...
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Vote your favourite "almost sci-fi" materials
On September - 3 - 2008
