COMS 2500 Chapter Notes - Chapter n/a: Science Fiction On Television, Buzz Aldrin, Popular Science
22 Oct 2016
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An astonishing number of ordinary americans take an extraordinary interest in exploring the human relation to science and technology. This realm can be seen everywhere in american popular culture and everyday life, if one only knows how to recognize it and provisionally accept it on its own terms. Recognizing and accepting this popular will to do science has not come easy, especially when the experts start from the assumption that most citizens are shamefully ignorant of scientific issues. Popular science and science cannot coexist because popular science confounds the progress of science. Stephen hawking engagement with popular science enables a rational understanding of the universe. Popular science involves the efforts of scientists, science writers, and scientific institutions to attract interest and support for advancing science and technology. Popular science includes the many science fiction television shows and films that offer a personalized, utopian reflection on men and women in space. Popular science is fictional work that carries on this reflection.
