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Speculative fiction is an umbrella genre of fiction that encompasses all the subgenres that depart from realism, or strictly imitating everyday reality, [1] instead presenting fantastical, supernatural, futuristic, or other imaginative realms. [2]
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Speculation, the practice of engaging in risky transactions in an attempt to profit from fluctuations in market value . Speculative attack, denoting precipitous acquisition of assets by previously inactive speculators
False-color Cassini radar mosaic of Titan's north polar region; the blue areas are lakes of liquid hydrocarbons. "The existence of lakes of liquid hydrocarbons on Titan opens up the possibility for solvents and energy sources that are alternatives to those in our biosphere and that might support novel life forms altogether different from those on Earth."—NASA Astrobiology Roadmap 2008 [1]
Speculative realism is a movement in contemporary Continental-inspired philosophy (also known as post-Continental philosophy) [1] that defines itself loosely in its stance of metaphysical realism against its interpretation of the dominant forms of post-Kantian philosophy (or what it terms "correlationism").
Artificial consciousness, [1] also known as machine consciousness, [2] [3] synthetic consciousness, [4] or digital consciousness, [5] is the consciousness hypothesized to be possible in artificial intelligence. [6]
Life in Kowloon Walled City has often inspired the dystopian identity in modern media works. [1]A dystopia (from Ancient Greek δυσ (dus) 'bad' and τόπος (tópos) 'place'), also called a cacotopia [2] or anti-utopia, is a community or society that is extremely bad or frightening.
It is speculated that when the Singkawang Hakka people lived in their original homeland on the mainland, they frequently interacted with Cantonese-speaking people in Guangdong. Due to this linguistic contact, Cantonese influenced their speech, leading to the borrowing of some Cantonese vocabulary into their Hakka language. [ 28 ]