{"id":9428,"date":"2013-09-27T11:35:26","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T08:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=9428"},"modified":"2013-09-27T11:35:26","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T08:35:26","slug":"mit-to-build-sci-fi-concepts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2013\/09\/27\/mit-to-build-sci-fi-concepts\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT to build sci-fi concepts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s build that cool science-fiction idea, and make it work&#8221;, says a new MIT course <a href=\"http:\/\/scifi2scifab.media.mit.edu\/syllabus-3\/\">MAS S95: Science Fiction to Science Fabrication<\/a>&#8230;  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;With a focus on the creation of functional prototypes, this class combines the analysis of classic and modern science fiction texts and films with physical fabrication or code-based interpretations of the technologies they depict.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I nominate Tillinghast&#8217;s resonance wave machine (in &#8220;From Beyond&#8221;), perhaps in a cyber-goggles form that would enable one to safely see into and selectively merge the unseen wavelengths of light&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Do you know what that is?&#8221; he whispered, &#8220;That is ultra-violet.&#8221; He chuckled oddly at my surprise. &#8220;You thought ultra-violet was invisible, and so it is &#8211; but you can see that and many other invisible things now.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s build that cool science-fiction idea, and make it work&#8221;, says a new MIT course MAS S95: Science Fiction to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2013\/09\/27\/mit-to-build-sci-fi-concepts\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-odd-scratchings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}