User:Genesis2FrontierProj

The Genesis II Frontier Project is an ongoing research and publishing effort. It includes fiction and non-fiction efforts to advance the understanding and appreciation of science fiction's relevance to contemporary and real-world social and cultural change. The project takes its name from Gene Roddenberry's 1973 tele-movie, Genesis II in which a post-crisis Earth of the year 2133 works through reconstruction and the re-knitting of communities with the help of a collective calling itself "PAX". Roddenberry's PAX is themed upon the trans-generational values of scientists and naturalists. Much of Gene Roddenberry's ideas of the future, as reflected both in Star Trek, and elsewhere involve people of diverse backgrounds working and building together and innovating technology to help solve social problems. In that vein, this project looks to understand and extrapolate where current social and technological changes may take us, both constructively and in the transiting of crises. It is primarily in this way that we can better hope to understand where we've come from as well as where we may be going.

The current work of the project includes advancing public awareness of the role of "social science fiction" through the internet (including academic editing and research for Wikipedia pages related to science fiction's connection to technology, culture and media). Additional academic work outside of Wikipedia is also in progress.