Making Space: Law and Science Fiction

Making Space: Law and Science Fiction

In this article I argue for greater attention to be paid to science fiction within sociolegal scholarship. In the first half of this paper I highlight that science fiction and law are already intertwined, science fiction having been commented on in a number of judicial decisions and law having been the focus of a number of science fiction texts. I then move on to outline how the law and science...

Dark Future Precedents: Science Fiction, Futurism and Law

In the next decade a collection of technological and biological advances will enable incredible breakthroughs. These advances will also reveal perils, threats and problems that have yet to be imagined. In the legal domain strategic passivity may be the tradition, but it will only become more expensive. Disruptive global trends in innovation and technological development, increased needs for art...

Making Science Fiction an Engineering Reality Using Biologically-Inspired Technologies

For many years, the trend has been to automate processes in order to increase the efficiency of performing redundant tasks. Realizing that some parts are too complex to inspect with a simple automatic system robotic mechanisms were developed to perform the necessary complex tasks. Lab and field scanners have emerged with significant capabilities where manipulators and crawlers were developed fo...

Science Fiction and Macdonald's Polynomials

This work studies the remarkable relationships that hold among certain m-tuples of the Garsia-Haiman modules M and corresponding elements of the Macdonald basis. We recall that in 10], M is deened for a partition`n, as the linear span of derivatives of a certain bihomogeneouspolynomial (x; y) in the variables x 1 ; x 2 conjecturedin 6], 10] that M has n! dimensionsand that its bigraded Frobeniu...

Fiction informed by science.