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How could they rip off ideas from Halo so blatantly!! Kidding of course. I don't think I had consciously acknowledged this, but @paulsutter is totally right. I

How could they rip off ideas from Halo so blatantly!! Kidding of course. I don't think I had consciously acknowledged this, but @paulsutter is totally right. I think the only vision of the future from recent times that I can think of is the "Minority Report UI" ... and we've pretty much already achieved that (NUI, iDevices, Kinect, etc.). Can anyone give any contemporary examples of what we imagine the future to be like (aside from a blade runner-esque dystopia)?

seanyseanysean 14y ago
I don't know but these renderings put me in mind of Freeside from Neuromancer.
wlievens 14y ago
Avatar had some pretty awesome user interface/interaction device concepts.
lutze 14y ago
Depends what you mean by contemporary? The Culture is very optimistic, and features engineering on a scale that makes these concepts look like iron age coracles. A personal favourite of mine is Schismatrix though. It's set almost entirely in space habitats similar to the ones featured here. As Neuromancer's lesser known cyberpunk contemporary, in places it's very... 80s in tone politically. But it's still a great setting, I'd highly recommend it.
- Retric 14y ago
  Consider Phlebas (1987) is 25 years old so I don't know if it still qualify's as recent.
  - lutze 14y ago
    Schismatrix is 27 years... Honestly, that's still pretty new in sci-fi terms. The genre is older than most people think! Off the top of my head, I can't think of anything more recent that describes such structures as evocatively as those novels. They seem to have fallen out of fashion a little, which is a shame.
dspeyer 14y ago
Rainbows End (Vinge) has a very interesting and not exactly dystopic vision.
cli 14y ago
http://www.orionsarm.com/ http://www.orionsarm.com/ world building project. Neal Stephenson's "The Diamond Age" features technology that I would personally like to achieve some time in my life time.
mogrim 14y ago
Peter Hamilton's stuff is "classic" space opera, lots of nanotech, AIs, wormholes and what-have-you. Fairly optimistic vision of the future, with overlaid disaster and chaos :)

seanyseanysean 14y ago

I don't know but these renderings put me in mind of Freeside from Neuromancer.

wlievens 14y ago

Avatar had some pretty awesome user interface/interaction device concepts.

lutze 14y ago

Depends what you mean by contemporary? The Culture is very optimistic, and features engineering on a scale that makes these concepts look like iron age coracles. A personal favourite of mine is Schismatrix though. It's set almost entirely in space habitats similar to the ones featured here. As Neuromancer's lesser known cyberpunk contemporary, in places it's very... 80s in tone politically. But it's still a great setting, I'd highly recommend it.

Retric 14y ago
Consider Phlebas (1987) is 25 years old so I don't know if it still qualify's as recent.
- lutze 14y ago
  Schismatrix is 27 years... Honestly, that's still pretty new in sci-fi terms. The genre is older than most people think! Off the top of my head, I can't think of anything more recent that describes such structures as evocatively as those novels. They seem to have fallen out of fashion a little, which is a shame.

dspeyer 14y ago

Rainbows End (Vinge) has a very interesting and not exactly dystopic vision.

cli 14y ago

http://www.orionsarm.com/ http://www.orionsarm.com/ world building project. Neal Stephenson's "The Diamond Age" features technology that I would personally like to achieve some time in my life time.

mogrim 14y ago

Peter Hamilton's stuff is "classic" space opera, lots of nanotech, AIs, wormholes and what-have-you. Fairly optimistic vision of the future, with overlaid disaster and chaos :)