Sweet Sci-Fi TV Map
Did I ever mention I designed my undergrad thesis on Science Fiction? All of the other kids would make fun of me, but at the end of the day, only one of us ended up with an awesome timeline chart of robots in pop culture since 1940. And that person was me.
My thesis broke down an academic text on the genre and made it accessible to people who normally wouldn’t think twice about sci-fi… like my parents and professors. I compiled a giant list of events in science and history that influenced the literature of the time, and then made a chart of all of the sci-fi publications starting in the 1700s. Pretty nerdy for a girl getting a BFA in Graphic Design… especially when some other people did their thesis on things like… fashion.
Anyway, I found this amazing graph on io9 on how sci-fi television has changed since 1970. For those of you who tripped and landed on this blog by accident, that’s pretty much everything after the original Star Trek series aired in the early 60s. It’s nothing short of chart porn, it’s done so well. Enjoy.
I just wanted to say thanks for posting this and for all your kind words (I also absolutely sympathize with you on the thesis project front, I did mine on voting system design)! I was really flattered to see this in my RSS reader today — I’ve been reading Geekadelphia for a while and find it quite enjoyable.
By the way, any chance of you posting that robot chart? ‘Cause I’d love to see it.