"Rather than the traditional paradigm of considering biological weapons as weapons of mass destruction, DiEuliis highlighted that synthetic biology may be leveraged as a weapon of mass disruption." / Yong-Bee Lim

"The true horror of Resident Evil, is in the games’ parallels to real-world events. After all, zombies are entirely fictional, but government-backed scientific divisions willing to experiment on unwilling employees or citizens are not." / Kazuma Hashimoto

"Rockman’s art background is as a naturalist illustrator. He takes scientific fact or well-informed speculation regarding biological engineering and displays them in a way for everyone to see and digest. They are funny and scary at the same time."/ Arius Elvikis

"There is something horrifying about the future farm animals but there is something beguiling too. The genetically modified creatures might be meant as a warning against future dystopia...It captures some of the promise and excitement of biotech as well as the danger." / Wayne Ferrebee

"...the ‘slippery slope’ of technology would seduce society into going places it shouldn’t. One of the key dystopian tropes involved chimeras – creatures that are a mix of more than one animal – just the sort of idea Piccinini had given form to with her ‘young family’." / Elizabeth Finkel

"Piccinini’s body of work addresses the profound question of what it means to be human. It also explores the boundaries of human-ness – the otherness of animals, of cyber-forms, and of humans who don’t resemble ‘the norm’." / Elizabeth Finkel

"People (myself included) have made the argument that life extension is foolish at best and immoral at worst; that a pursuit of the life eternal (or at least a life lot-longer) is downright inhuman. The world has only so many resources. If we were to add another 20 to 40 years to the lifespans of every person on Earth, it could have cataclysmic global consequence." / W. Harry Fortuna

"Type-1 vulnerability: There is some technology which is so destructive and so easy to use that, given the semi-anarchic default condition, the actions of actors in the apocalyptic residual make civilizational devastation extremely likely." / Nick Bostrom

"A major environmental concern related to nuclear power is the creation of radioactive wastes such as uranium mill tailings, spent (used) reactor fuel, and other radioactive wastes." / U.S. Energy Information Administration

"All life on Earth and in the oceans lives with exposure to natural levels of ionizing radiation—high-frequency radiation with enough energy to change DNA. Most such genetic damage heals, but the addition of human-made radiation can make it harder for the body to repair broken genes." / Christine Dell'amore

"Hesse-Honegger's paintings are intended to show visually, and thus emotionally, the effect of nuclear plants on their environment. People looking at the paintings must inevitably ask: 'If that's the effect it's having on insects, what is it doing to humans?'" / Geraldine Norman

"Exhibitions such as last year’s ‘The Radiants’, at Bortolami Gallery in New York, has shown how visualisations of nuclear power and its associated risks have emerged from a tradition stretching back to the contact prints executed by Henri Bécquerel and Marie Curie." / James Purdon

"The Akira manga seems to showcase the perils of a hyper-modernized nation that loses control of its super-weapons and then, catastrophically, reverts into a petty, garish reflection of its older, Imperial self." / Michael Hale

"This part of the illustrations department has a lot to tell about the actual story. The point of Akira (I would dare to say) is not to design cool monsters or robots, but to show a realistic take of a world in anarchy where humans of immense power exist." / Hans Angel

"During the 1960s, the Cold War and prospect of nuclear weapons being deployed served as alarming inspiration for artists and writers. Plots in science fiction and artistic renderings featured post-nuclear apocalyptic universes, emulating real fears within society." / Lauren Young

"...the opportunity to explore the notion of living in this entirely different environment...," / Katharine Harmon

"Newman did not detail what exactly the cities would be used for: alleviating overcrowding; alternative space in the event of nuclear war; or luxury futuristic get-away." / Lauren Young

"Alejandro Burdisio exchanges the past for the future almost like a child’s game: an empathic memory of a future civilization lost in the aesthetic melancholy of the first half of the twentieth century. A succession of historical ‘layers’ mirroring the economic and socio-political meanings." / Pedro Boaventura

"Cause the technical improvement, rising sea level, and lack of residential space, living in the deep sea become a normal way of life" / Sherry Yeh

"Because in the vast realm of outer space, accidents happen all the time. Things bump into other things. Stars blow up. Black holes snack on anything that crosses their paths. Space rocks the size of soccer fields smash into planets. Many of these events could change or eliminate all life on a world like Earth." /David A. Aguilar

"Between 1988 and 2017, NASA counted over 700 fireballs created by objects entering our atmosphere." / Vox

"Imagine what that would have looked like from the ground." / Your Discovery Science

"The odds of a near-Earth object strike causing massive casualties and destruction of infrastructure are very small, but the potential consequences of such an event are so large it makes sense to takes the risk seriously." / John Holdren

"…If you want to think about the future of civilization, you have to include a defense plan against asteroids." / Neil deGrasse Tyson

"Should the asteroid be blown up with a nuclear bomb?" "That would be extremely dangerous. Happily, science has moved away from the idea, because it’s far from simple. It would be hard to predict the actual consequences of fragmenting an asteroid with an explosion." / Philipp Maier

"A critical role some astronomers play today is the detection of asteroids long before they get here, so that something might be done to prevent a collision. For example, if we had a few years to respond, we might send a robotic spacecraft to gently nudge the asteroid onto another course so it would miss Earth completely." / David A. Aguilar

"...the purpose of AR is to add helpful (or perhaps just entertaining) digital illusions to the user’s perceptions. But AR has a second, less appreciated, facet: It also functions as a sophisticated mobile surveillance system." / Mark Pesce

"A provocative and kaleidoscopic new vision of the future." / Hyper-Reality

"A job hiring bot might decide it likes a particular candidate, but be entirely unable to tell a human why. And that opens the door to all kinds of biases and assumptions – if an AI has been ‘trained’ on the wrong data set, watch out!" / Christian Zilles

"Elon Musk believes and has for years warned that AGI is humanity’s biggest existential threat. Efforts to bring it about, he has said, are like summoning the demon." / Mike Thomas

"What we envision today with creations such as Elon Musk’s Neuralink implant was a concept already suggested by the anime in the 90s, including philosophical and technological argumentation." / Lidia Zuin

"Science fiction writers, particularly the cyberpunk authors who inspired ‘Ghost in the Shell’, have been dramatizing the risks of versions of this idea for decades." / Ed Finn

"Ghost In The Shell was uniquely concerned with the possible meaning of technology’s effect on human evolution... no other animated movie has rendered those ideas on the screen to such a thought-provoking and intelligent degree." / Ryan Lambie

"Lain uses an array of hallucinatory visual and editing devices to stitch together a dizzying collage of images...Its prophesies about the implications of online culture may seem with hindsight striking in their accuracy, but they were by no means uniquely original observations at the time." / Ian Martin

"Serial Experiments Lain does exactly that, with a psychedelic and supremely interesting visual style. There’s an abundance of washed out lighting, electronic imagery, and visual effects reminiscent of corrupted data." / Noah Gassas

"Syd Mead’s futuristic style will allow Cyberpunk to be seen on the big screen for the first time... It is thanks to him that Blade Runner will become so iconic with the passing of time, this pressing atmosphere that we already feel in his illustrations transcribes perfectly this futuristic world." / Julien Djoubri

"He is able to include a strange level of mystery and intrigue to the illustration. Anything that lends mystery and curiosity to a piece of art makes it more interesting. An unlikely picture of a probable scenario in the future lures the observer in...Mead is a master at taking tradition and forcing it into a future scenario to project to the viewer a sense of reality." / Kendall Schroder

"Dystopias are seemingly everywhere these days. Whether it’s books, movies, TV, graphic novels, video games… whatever your storytelling medium of choice, the world is falling apart. Generally, these dystopias take the form of oppressive, all-powerful governments running roughshod over their inhabitants, making their lives a living hell for unknown diabolical purposes. But what if government control took a different form? " / J.Brandon Lowry

"In other words, I feel that the nightmare of Nineteen Eighty-Four is destined to modulate into the nightmare of a world having more resemblance to that which I imagined in Brave New World. The change will be brought about as a result of a felt need for increased efficiency. Meanwhile, of course, there may be a large-scale biological and atomic war --- in which case we shall have nightmares of other and scarcely imaginable kinds." / George Orwell

"In cyberpunk 2077, aside from equipping your character with the game’s best futuristic weaponry, there are a number of ways that you can increase both your body’s survivability and enhance its combat abilities through prosthetics." / James Busby

Mantis Blades – These blades are fitted to your forearms and allow for some incredibly lethal melee attacks.

Blood pump – This device is inserted into the body to help improve the healing process.

Titanium Bones – A mod that increases the player character’s carrying capacity by 20%.

"After the 1980s, Western cyberpunk narratives began to reveal the West's anxiety and fear of the rising Eastern civilization. The East Asian culture that often appears in cyberpunk is often set as ‘other’ different from the mainstream culture and appears as a social threat and villain. For example, the story background of the game ‘Cyberpunk 2077’ is adapted from the 1990 cyberpunk board game ‘Cyberpunk 2020’. The Arasaka Company and Tiger Claw Gang that often appear in it reflect the Americans' attitude towards Japan in the early 1990s." / Ding Ye

"...Finally, one aspect that reinforces the notion of Asian characters in the game as the “other” may actually be the most inconspicuous: the main character, V. The game’s extensive character customization is impressive. However, even if you create the most Asian-looking person you can through the customization tools, there are elements of racialization that are inescapable… " / George Yang

"The film implies that Akira takes Tetsuo to a certain alternate dimension, he created his own dimension...The Olympic stadium is traditionally regarded as a symbol of Japan's incredible revival after the war. Its destruction seems to symbolize the refusal of all Western forces." / WISECRACK

"After the Second World War ....We see American culture constantly provocative, showing off their own talent, on the contrary, in Japanese culture, although the output of changeable symbols, the essence is repressed at heart."

"Like Takashi Murakami’s work, it is also the product of a mixture of eastern and western cultures, ranging from the violent tendencies of Westerners to the loveliness and even naivety of Orientals. " / Erde Meng

"...In fact, to define the cultural output of Eastern and Western cultures, it is most appropriate to describe it as hybridity. We only see Eastern and Hong Kong elements frequently appearing in Western science fiction movies, but we don’t know that the fantasy of the Western world is also infiltrating the Eastern soil." / Nianci Yu