Sci-Fi, Technology, and Society | Michael Hohl | Activity https://scifi.seejazzwork.com/members/hohlm/activity/ Activity feed for Michael Hohl. Mon, 12 Jan 2026 02:03:36 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 84dee8c596ad5309052d78c159b959e0 Michael Hohl replied to the topic Saving our Planet is the Thing to Do! in the forum Class Discussion https://scifi.seejazzwork.com/forums/topic/saving-our-planet-is-the-thing-to-do/#post-1064 Sun, 22 Nov 2020 02:12:14 -0500 Trying to think of specifically ecomodernist examples, but ecomodernism is realatively new (last 5 years or so) and is fairly niche on top of that. With that said, Star Wars: The Old Republic’s interpretation of Alderaan looks to be fairly similar, if by accident.
Alderaan
Alderaan is depicted as having rather vertical cities surrounded by untamed…Read more

]]> 33f0ed3536900679382b325e852e4b6c Michael Hohl replied to the topic What can we learn from sci-fi? in the forum Class Discussion https://scifi.seejazzwork.com/forums/topic/what-can-we-learn-from-sci-fi/#post-706 Sat, 07 Nov 2020 01:13:55 -0500 I feel like being the contrarian here. Not because I necessarily agree with anything in this post, but because challenging the sci-fi genre in a class about sci-fi seems amusing.

Can we truly learn anything from Sci-fi? Science fiction is inherently, well, fiction. It’s a set of non-real events created to explore the ramifications of a specific…Read more

]]> a0da882384b24ba6e11d02e3db414a76 Michael Hohl changed their profile picture https://scifi.seejazzwork.com/activity/p/45/ Sat, 17 Oct 2020 16:27:34 -0400 0 2ed0a6890f4e8d6f6ff8a4511def6418 Michael Hohl replied to the topic Regulation vs Innovation in the forum Class Discussion https://scifi.seejazzwork.com/forums/topic/regulation-vs-innovation/#post-220 Sat, 17 Oct 2020 16:24:19 -0400 Does regulation actually stop innovation? That’s an assumption that this entire “choice” is based on, but personally I don’t think that premise is a valid one. Regulation ensures safe innovation to be sure, but I see no reason that innovation and regulation must be inherently at odds.

If an innovation is safe, worst case scenario is that…Read more

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