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'Future Worlds' Resources:
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Gattaca Script:
http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/g/gattaca-script-screenplay.html
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The World Future Society: Wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Future_Society
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Ten forecasts for 2009 and Beyond
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Science Fiction Stories
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Science Fiction stories usually have something to say about worlds of the future. Listen to some classic Science Fiction stories below to find out what others have predicted for 'Future Worlds'
Beyond Eden
by Arthur C Clarke.
In the future, only Earth and Mars have life. A group of scientists go to Venus to look for life. What do they find?
Foun
dation 1 by Isaac Asimov.
The first of 'The Foundation Trilogy', an epic science fiction series written over a span of forty-four years It consists of seven volumes that are closely linked to each other, although they can be read separately. The series is highly acclaimed, winning the one-time Hugo Award for "Best All-Time Series" in 1966. The premise of the series is that mathematician Hari Seldon spent his life developing a branch of mathematics known as psychohistory, a concept devised by Asimov and his editor John W. Campbell. Using the law of mass action, it can predict the future, but only on a large scale; it is error-prone for anything smaller than a planet or an empire. It works on the principle that the behavior of a mass of people is predictable if the quantity of this mass is very large (equal to the population of the galaxy). (Source:
Internet Archive)
Nightfall by Isaac Asimov is considered one of the best Science Fiction stories of all time.
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