Sfiction na cience ya kasance abubuwa daban-daban ga mutane da yawa. Ya kasance wani nau'i na kubuta daga rugujewar rayuwar yau da kullum. Na'ura ce ta samun kuɗi don siyar da kayayyaki, kayan wasan yara, da Abincin Farin Ciki, gami da wasu fina-finai mafi girma a kowane lokaci. Ya yi wahayi zuwa ga binciken sababbin kimiyya da sababbin fasaha-alal misali, ra'ayin tauraron dan adam sadarwa na geostationary shine tunanin marubucin almarar kimiyya Arthur C. Clarke. Kuma ya zama wata hanya ta gano manyan batutuwa, don taimakawa wajen keɓance matatar kafofin watsa labaru na kamfanoni wanda in ba haka ba zai toshe sharhi mai mahimmanci isa ga masu sauraro.
Almarar kimiyya-a cikin aikin masanan kamar Mary Shelley, Rod Serling, Octavia Butler, Kim Stanley Robinson, da Ursula K. LeGuin - sun kasance hanya don samarwa da haɓaka sharhin zamantakewa, sukar tsarin zamantakewar zamantakewa, da kuma gano ɗan adam. yanayi. Wannan ingantaccen bangaren almarar kimiyya shine jigon taron Think Galacticon da aka gudanar a Jami'ar Roosevelt da ke Chicago a wannan watan Yuni.
Taron, wanda (kuma mai suna) ƙungiyar karatun almarar kimiyya ta Chicago mai suna Think Galactic (www.thinkgalactic.org), ta bincika almarar kimiyya ta hanyar ruwan tabarau na siyasa na hagu, duka suna sukar almarar kimiyya na yau da kullun da kuma nuna ayyukan da za su iya zama. an yi la'akari da wani ɓangare na al'adar ci gaba na sci-fi.
Taron ya shirya jerin bangarori kan batutuwan zamantakewa da dama: dangi ("Jima'i da Jima'i a cikin Fan Fiction," "Matsayin jinsin da aka ƙayyade a cikin SF da Fantasy"); tseren ("Kabilanci da Kabilanci a cikin Fiction na Matasa na Matasa," "Yaƙi don ganewa a cikin SF Community," "Racefail '09"); siyasa ("Siyasa da SF Movement," "Anarchism da Superhero: Anti-Crime Direct Actionist ko Enforcer na Jihar?"); kimiyya da fasaha, ("Kimiyya da Fasaha don 'Yanci," "Cujin Yanayi"); da tattalin arziki ("Class, the Economy and You," "DIY [yi da kanka]"). Yawancin bangarorin da na halarta suna da "makiyayi" iri-iri waɗanda suka tada tambayoyi na farko kuma suka taimaka ci gaba da bin hanya, amma ƙarfafawa da sauƙaƙe shigar da ra'ayoyi da yawa na masu sauraro. Sakamakon ya kasance taron da ke cike da tattaunawa mai ban sha'awa tare da karya kyama da ra'ayoyi a kowane juzu'i.
Kwamitin kan "Jima'i da Jima'i a cikin Fan Fiction" sun tattauna bambancin jinsi a cikin nau'ikan ikon da manyan jarumai ke da'awar sanyawa, ko za a ayyana ta'addanci kai tsaye a matsayin namiji, da kuma ko robots suna yin jinsi ta atomatik (misali, gidajen wuta).
Hakazalika, kwamitin kan fasahar yi-it-yourself zai iya mayar da hankali kan fasahar “namiji” na kwamfutoci (kuma, i, fasahohin budadden tushe kamar Linux sun kasance wani bangare na tattaunawar). Koyaya, yawancin lokutan an kashe su akan fasahohin "mace" kamar yin tufafi, siyasa da zamantakewar al'umma a bayan suturar "manyan-girma", da ƙarfafawa da ƙirƙirar ainihi waɗanda ke bayan aikin ƙirƙira.
Wani kwamiti akan siyasa da motsi na sci-fi ya fara ne tare da gabatar da "taxonomy" na siyasa a cikin sci-fi, tun daga abin da ake kira "hard" sci-fi na mulki (misali, ɗan gajeren labarin Tom Godwin "Cold Equations). ") zuwa juzu'in da ake kira "space opera," wanda ke ɗaukar hangen nesa mai ƙarfi da kyakkyawan fata. Amma wannan kwamitin bai daɗe ba a kan babban maudu'in, da fa'idarsa. Ya yi tsalle daga Futurians (ƙungiyar masu ba da gudummawar almarar kimiyyar kimiyya) zuwa aikin marubucin Scotland Ken MacLeod zuwa bambance-bambancen 'yanci (hagu da dama) zuwa da yawa na sauran marubuta, masu yin fim, da masu hangen nesa. Ko da yake yana da daɗi zama wani ɓangare na wasan ƙwallon ƙafa na hankali, a kan ƙarin tunani mai yiwuwa zai amfana daga ƙarin mayar da hankali.
Kwamitin kan "Kimiyya da Fasaha don 'Yanci" cikin sauri ya shiga cikin ɓarkewar layi tsakanin almara da gaskiya. Fasaha—musamman fasahohin sadarwa—waɗanda suke da ban sha'awa a ƴan shekarun da suka gabata sukan zama na gaske. Ɗaya daga cikin misalan da aka buga ita ce hanyar sadarwa da ake kira Wave a cikin jerin sci-fi TV na "Firefly," wanda ya haifar da suna ga kayan aikin sadarwa da ake kira Google Wave. Bugu da ƙari, irin waɗannan kayan aikin sadarwa na iya yin tasiri cikin sauri: YouTube ya fara zuwa kan layi a cikin 2005, Twitter a 2006.
Almarar kimiyya, ko waɗancan marubutan almara na kimiyya waɗanda ke tunanin abubuwan da za su faru nan gaba, za a iya kama su a matsayin da ba a taɓa ganin irinsa ba na kasancewa a bayan haƙiƙanin abubuwan da suka faru. Misali daya shine novel Dakatar da Jiha da Charles Strauss. Makircin littafin ya ta'allaka ne akan fashin banki na gaskiya-gaskiya. Ba da daɗewa ba bayan wallafa littafin, fashin banki na kan layi, musamman a cikin sanannen gaskiyar rayuwa ta Biyu, da gaske yana faruwa. A cikin Yuli 2009, wasan cinikin sararin samaniya Ko da Online ya ga an sace kwatankwacin kiredit biliyan 200.
Yawancin mahalarta taron sun koka da cewa sauran al'amuran almara na kimiyya ba su magance isassun jigogin sci-fi ba da kuma tunanin Galacticon. Ta hanyar haɗa tsarin taro mai ma'ana, nau'ikan sci-fi masu dacewa da jigogi na zamantakewa, da kuma yawancin mutane masu ilimin siyasa, tunanin Galacticon ya buga daidai bayanin kula. Tsarin taron, wanda ke buƙatar sa hannu daga mahalarta, ya haɓaka ingancinsa kuma kusan kowa da kowa ya ba da gudummawa da sharhi, wani lokacin kuma yana ba da gudummawa sosai. Amma tsarin kadai zai kasance kadan idan ba don yawancin mahalarta da ke da hannu ba waɗanda suka ƙidaya a cikin matsayi daban-daban na launin fata, jinsi, da sauran alƙaluma fiye da wanda za a iya samu a babban taron almara na kimiyya.
Akwai wasu tuntuɓe a kan hanya. Ɗayan kwamitin da na halarta, "Aji, Tattalin Arziki da Kai," bai shiga cikin basirar mahalartansa ba kuma bai yi kyau kamar yadda nake fata ba. Abin sha'awa, ko da yake, taron ya yi wahayi da kuma ba da labari, ba kawai kan almara na kimiyya ba, amma akan batutuwa da yawa da batutuwa. Masu shirya Think Galacticon zai yi kyau su shirya wani taro nan ba da jimawa ba, musamman tare da al'amuran duniya, fasaha, da fafutuka duk suna motsawa a irin wannan shirin mai sauri. Hasashen mu na gama kai zai buƙaci motsa jiki na tunani wanda Think Galacticon ya bayar.
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