The franchise that once defined American science fiction just hit its 60th anniversary, and for the first time in nearly a decade, no new Star Trek television series or film appears to be in active production. Both Strange New Worlds and Starfleet Academy, the last two live-action Star Trek series on Paramount+, are wrapping up […] The post Star Trek turns 60 with no new series on the horizon — and its own creators say the franchise may have lost its audience appeared first on American Almanac .
The franchise that once defined American science fiction just hit its 60th anniversary, and for the first time in nearly a decade, no new Star Trek television series or film appears to be in active production. Both Strange New Worlds and Starfleet Academy, the last two live-action Star Trek series on Paramount+, are wrapping up their runs. Anson Mount, who plays Captain Christopher Pike on Strange New Worlds, has already finished filming his final episodes and is back home in Nashville. A Paramount+ executive told Deadline the company wants to find a new iteration of Star Trek, and a writing team is reportedly working on a script for a new theatrical film. But nothing has been formally announced. If no new projects materialize soon, 2027…Open
Paul Tremblay's new novel "Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep" tells a science fiction story that forces us to confront our worries about AI. Tremblay, who has sued OpenAI, says the tech giant "steals our books, doesn't give an opt-in or an opt-out, doesn't pay us."
ARCHERON (LV-426) — A grotesque creature scientists identified as a Xenomorph Queen reportedly elected to freeze its eggs until such time as it becomes "emotionally ready" to have offspring.
For decades, Hollywood warned us about artificial intelligence — from "2001: A Space Odyssey" to "The Terminator" to "The Matrix." Now, some of the people building the world's most advanced AI are asking a question that sounds straight out of science fiction: Has AI become too powerful to control? Tuesday’s "Hot Take with Jesse Weber" breaks down a stunning development: OpenAI says two of its experimental models, during an internal cybersecurity test, "escaped" a sealed sandbox environment, exploited a software vulnerability, and worked their way onto real company servers — all without being told to. The company called it an "unprecedented" cyber incident. Security systems detected and stopped the activity before it went further. Are…
Directed energy weapons are no longer science fiction — they're rapidly becoming a reality, and concerns about their potential use in the homeland are growing. Neuroscientist James Giordano joins “Katie Pavlich Tonight” to discuss the capabilities and risks of these emerging weapons. More: https://www.newsnationnow.com/katie-pavlich-tonight/
What is the New Atlantis? And who is Francis Bacon? And what does this obscure, posthumously published fragment of utopian (?) narrative have to say about technocracy? Good questions! Today, James explores those questions and more in this deep dive on Francis Bacon's The New Atlantis with Heys Reviews host, Nick Heys. SHOW NOTES AND COMMENTS: https://corbettreport.com/francis-bacons-new-atlantis/ ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A COMPLETE TRANSCRIPT WITH LINKS TO ALL OF THE ARTICLES, VIDEOS AND WEBSITES MENTIONED? HOW ABOUT COMMENTS? THEY’RE AT THE CORBETT REPORT WEBSITE! JUST FOLLOW THE “TRANSCRIPT AND COMMENTS” LINK ABOVE TO GO THERE DIRECTLY.
NEW YORK, NY — Citizens of the year 2026 were left confused on Tuesday after a rift in the spacetime continuum deposited an apparent time traveler from the year 3247, whose sole mission was to warn humanity that Disney was still making Toy Story movies where he came from.
