Un geniale ingegnere della NASA, il suo strano cane-robot da riporto e una geologa spagnola non sono i soli ad aggirarsi in cerca di qualcosa fra le colline multicolori, i rivoli di acqua tossica color sangue, i binari morti, le locomotive a vapore abbandonate e le forme di vita impossibili di uno dei luoghi più “alieni” del nostro pianeta. Varcando le Colonne d’Ercole, un’altra intelligenza si è spinta fino ai confini del Mare nostrum, e viene da molto, molto più lontano.

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Un geniale ingegnere della NASA, il suo strano cane-robot da riporto e una geologa spagnola non sono i soli ad aggirarsi in cerca di qualcosa fra le colline multicolori, i rivoli di acqua tossica color sangue, i binari morti, le locomotive a vapore abbandonate e le forme di vita impossibili di uno dei luoghi più “alieni” del nostro pianeta. Varcando le Colonne d’Ercole, un’altra intelligenza si è spinta fino ai confini del Mare nostrum, e viene da molto, molto più lontano.

What if people weren’t the crown of creation?  What if we had to play second banana to Humans 2.0, AI machines, visiting aliens, cyborgs or other potentially smarter beings?  I think our fear is they would treat us like we have treated chimpanzees.  What if intelligent machines emerge, homo sapiens superior evolve and we make SETI contact, and suddenly we’re number four on the totem pole of intelligence?

Unless we destroy the planet and make ourselves extinct, sooner or later we’re going to be replaced at the top of the smart chart.   How will that effect us personally, our society, and how we think about our future?  Most primitive cultures when contacted by modern humans haven’t fared well.  Science fiction has been preparing us for centuries, but I’m not sure if science fiction has done a good enough job covering all the possibilities.

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Science fiction has always had two different faces that confounds efforts to define it in a distinct manner.  Science fiction first evolved as a literary branch of philosophical speculation which produced stories, often crudely told, about possible inventions, speculation about distant worlds and their inhabitants, and extrapolation about the future.  Speculative science fiction is pretty much based on “What if?”  Writers could imagine the impact of change, or wonder about unexplored areas of reality.  Eventually, some of this speculative science fiction produced concepts that became popular, generating global memes, and then other writers wrote adventure science fiction using these concepts as if they were religious icons.  Often adventure science fiction based on original speculative ideas have no new speculation on their own.  A spaceship is just a spaceship, and alien is just an alien.

Think of H. G. Wells two most famous stories, The Time Machine, and War of…