Authors:
Aaron Marcus
Movies and videos over the past century used human-computer interaction (HCI) to tell science-fiction (sci-fi) stories that envision alternate worlds. Sci-fi may have begun about 1260 AD/CE, when the philosopher Roger Bacon predicted "wagons may be built which will move with incredible speed and without the aid of beasts; flying machines can be constructed in which a man ... may beat the air with wings like a bird..." [1]. Leonardo da Vinci some 250 years later visualized such flying machines and other sci-fi-like wonders. After World War II, science-fiction writers and filmmakers envisioned an optimistic world in which people…
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