/r/FuturisticRealism

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In conjunction with /r/SciFiRealism, /r/FuturisticRealism shows off the slower paced, more down to Earth side of sci-fi. This one in particular features my favorite subject matters the most— robots doing mundane things and real life cities that resemble science fiction cityscapes.

A slice of tomorrow.

Realism (or naturalism) in the arts is the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding artistic conventions, implausible, exotic and supernatural elements.

Literary fiction includes works that offer deliberate social commentary, political criticism, or focus on the individual to explore some part of the human condition, without the need for fantastic or high action elements— as opposed to genre fiction.

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginative content such as futuristic settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, time travel, faster than light travel, parallel universes and extraterrestrial life.

Futuristic Realism is a subgenre of both science fiction and literary fiction that draws from science fiction and uses the structure of literary and realistic fiction in order to tell a story that feels familiar and contemporary. It also describes aspects of real life that mimic science fiction, including the usage of extraordinary technology in deliberately fanciful ways.

/u/Yuli-Ban's favorite pieces from /r/SciFiRealism. These are the pieces that best exemplify the "photographs from the future" aspect: media that doesn't feel overly artistic, but instead captured at a particular moment.

See also:

/r/FuturePresent

/r/SciFiRealism

/r/SliceOfTomorrow (in construction!)

/r/RealisticDesign

/r/WeLiveInTheFuture

/r/FuturisticRealism

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A person hooked up to a noninvasive brain-computer-interface from neurotech company Kernel, 2020

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2021/11/26
23:41 UTC

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Robot Room Service

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2021/11/22
08:33 UTC

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If you and millions of other people had robot butlers, what exactly would life be like?

I figured years back that I wouldn't actually use the robot that much and would likely rent it out to the city to use. Voila, municipal automation, aka modern helots. It could do my chores, and when unneeded it could clean the streets and make food for the homeless for some extra bucks.

Some of the most realistic ideas for the future come from just being bored and thinking through the actual consequences of people having technology. And I mean actual common people, not the sexier groups like terrorists, hackers, megacorp executives, and mercenaries.

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2021/11/17
10:15 UTC

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EMP's are the new Nukes

So, I was thinking. With all this new tech that affects the human body coming up, all of them were machines. Like the artificial heart, which we already have, nurallink, robotic limbs, etc. This is obviously the future of humanity, and it's approaching rapidly. This is all good an all, but think about what would happen if an EMP dropped over the earth at that future, with all the futuristic stuff I just mentioned. Think of the damage that would happen. People would collapse dead on the streets, locked in buildings, all the robotically operated farms shut down, people on life support just die, planes drop from the sky, etc. That's just a country, and not even that advanced, now imagine if every human on earth was an Android, or robot or whatever. An EMP dropping on them would cause as much death as a nuke, but without all the destruction that comes with it. The robots will all just drop, dead. Immediately. And it doesn't even need to be a man made EMP. Take solar flares for example. I forgot the name but a massive one hit earth, luckily all that was there at the time was typewriters. And they all got destroyed. Now if one were to hit earth at the time humanity got into the technological paradise we want it to be, that happened again. A planet filled with life, dead after 2 days.

Edit: So I was also thinking, what if this is the reason we don't see advanced aliens? Like, solar flares are suprisingly common. What if one just happened and killed off/set back an entire alien race by centuries, or even millennia. What if alien races with the same intelligence as us are extremely common but they all got taken out by solar flares. If that's the case alien life is common, it's just that they got screwed over by their stars.

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2021/11/16
14:11 UTC

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Ideas of futuristic product design (can be somewhat fictional)?

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2021/11/08
15:53 UTC

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what will life for humans be like after the singularity?

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2021/10/13
23:21 UTC

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Check out these transparent and bendable OLED screens

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2021/06/13
02:47 UTC

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Next-gen holograms: Using lasers to create the displays of science fiction, inspired by Star Wars and Star Trek

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2021/05/09
18:46 UTC

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"Jetpack Man" sighted again above Los Angeles

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2021/01/01
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Boston Dynamics' latest video | "Do You Love Me?" A robotic dance troupe!

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2020/12/30
00:10 UTC

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Digit Power Up and Basic Controls | Here it is. A real-life instructional video for powering on and operating your own humanoid robot, presented as mundanely as possible. This is the kind of thing /r/FuturisticRealism was made for

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2020/11/16
17:03 UTC

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2020 World's most powerful CW handheld laser [Styropyro's laser videos are amazing. This is basically the closest thing to a handheld laser gun yet)

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2020/08/20
17:54 UTC

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Hoverbike crash in Dubai during test flight

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2020/06/10
20:37 UTC

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Disinfection Gates

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2020/05/08
22:26 UTC

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Boston Dynamics' Atlas [Remember that athletic video from 2019? Remember when the idea of general-purpose humanoid robots doing athletics was utter science fiction?]

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2020/04/06
14:23 UTC

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Интересно, при чем тут Кодзима? | Cyberpunk Quarantine (I love how everything shown here is technology that actually exists)

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2020/04/04
15:28 UTC

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Adam Savage Tests Boston Dynamics' Spot Robot

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2020/01/26
18:56 UTC

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Anime Toy Maker In Tokyo Has The World's Coolest Entrance Gate | Very deliberately sci-fi!

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2019/08/04
14:53 UTC

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Flyboard Air at a 2019 Parisian military parade

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2019/07/14
21:16 UTC

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Paris, July 2019.....A soldier in an exoskeleton is unloading kit from a robo-mule.

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2019/07/13
18:29 UTC

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Wearable Wings With Jets Engines

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2019/07/13
17:44 UTC

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Station 23 by Josef Bsharah.

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2019/07/07
00:46 UTC

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