Unlike most animals, humans can perceive some future threats and prepare for them.
Apocalypse
As natural disasters become more commonplace, is there a point at which we will become too distressed by the real to reproduce it as entertaining spectacle?
University of Sheffield | Science Fiction
A team of PhD students at the Univ. of Sheffield have used mathematics to work out the best way to survive an uprising of the undead.
Futurecasting | Science Fiction
How does contemporary sci-fi respond to the pressures what many environmentalists see as a dying planet in the real world?
Some of the sci-fi disaster movie scenarios that are plausible might surprise you.
Futurecasting | Science Fiction
Science fiction is full of warnings and we should be careful to take heed.
Futurecasting | Science Fiction
It would seem that humanity is becoming more and more concerned with portents of human extinction.
The phenomenon of “prepping” – a predominantly American phenomenon of storing food, water and weapons, and developing self-sufficiency skills for independently surviving disasters – is on the rise.
