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Xprize enlists sci-fi authors and filmmakers to map our future
Science fiction has been instrumental in creating the future from the very beginning. Real-life manipulator hands, originally created for the nuclear industry, were named after Robert Heinlein's short story, "Waldo." It makes a lot of sense, then, that when the Xprize program partnered with All Nippon Airlines (ANA) to "imagine a bold vision of the future," it would look to celebrated science fiction novelists, writers, filmmakers, producers and screenwriters. The collaboration has produced the Science Fiction Council, a group comprised of high-octane sci-fi storytellers from nine countries, including luminaries like Margaret Atwood, Cory Doctorow, Andy Weir, Charles Stross, Ernest Cline and Nancy Kress.
Continental breakfast, I choose you!
You'd have to really love Pokemon to be anything but freaked out by what looks like a Poke-intervention scene here. We assume that only Pokemon zealots would enter a contest for an All Nippon Airlines Pokemon-themed vacation, presumably one that involves traveling on the Pokemon airplane. Of course, if those Pokemon blankets were put down just to Poke-fy the room for the contest, maybe they're clean. That's how they should advertise the contest: Win a chance to sleep in a clean hotel room!
