Yes, you can. And it can be good for you. But the danger is seeing it as a substitute for a human connection. Three experts ...

Science fiction writers have a long history of trying to predict future technology. Here are six devices from sci-fi novels that became a reality.

Intelligent machines have long played a role in science fiction, going back to Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis” (1927), Isaac Asimov’s Three Rules of Robotics (1942) and HAL 9000 in “2001: A ...

I n 1950, a U.S. Army psyops officer named Paul Linebarger used a pseudonym to publish a science-fiction story titled “Scanners Live in Vain” in a pulp magazine.It was about a man named Martel ...

In 1928 the writer Jack Williamson recounted Gernsback’s view: Science fiction “takes the basis of science . . . and then adds a thing that is alien to science—imagination. It lights the way.” ...