Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Where are Sci-Fi Television's Colleges

A good question. Very little effort has been made to portray the college of the future. What would it look like? What would be studied in fields like literature, history, psychology? What fundamentally new concepts would these colleges have come up with, differing them from the colleges of today. Most depictions of colleges in space operas and cyberpunk TV shows show them to be little different from colleges of today, either hyper-militaristic West Points or stereotyped stuffy academic institutions like those shown in season 4 of Babylon 5. Who would be the hated Heideggers and Foucaults of future generations? What would they be set up against? It's a good question. I wish I had an answer to it.

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