Following are copies of handouts that accompanied student presentations in Literature of the Future. The following table of contents and the presentations themselves are arranged roughly in chronological order of presentation.

Key:

(title of video, audio, or print text in presentation)

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Cryonics and Cryogenics

Virginia (Ginger) Hilton

(video: Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery)

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The Apocalyptic Future: Is it Really the End of the World?

Mary Anderson

(audio: "It's the End of the World as we Know It" by REM)

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Time Travel

Holly Castaneda

(video: Somewhere in Time)

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Dreams in Total Recall

Melissa Pena

(video: Total Recall)

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Global Warming

Mike Schmitt

(video: Waterworld)

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Exploring the Future

Debbra Nilssen

(print text: Which World? Scenarios for the 21^st Century by Allen Hammond)

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Would We Really Do It?

Kit Maybin

(audio: "Two Suns in the Sunset" by Pink Floyd)

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The Jetsons: Is This Really Our Future?

Susan Leining

(video: The Jetsons)

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Spoiler

Timi Radicioni

(video: Spoiler)

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Asteroids and the Apocalypse

Todd Ener

(video: Armageddon)

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The Simplicity of The Apocalypse

Randolph (Skip) Garwood

(video: The Seventh Sign)

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Choices, Choices. Which would you choose?

Lynda Wright

(video: Back to the Future II)

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The Apocalypse Now

Erma Philips

(print and electronic texts)

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Children’s Literature of the Future

Molly O. Smith

(print texts by Dr. Seuss, Roald Dahl, Shel Silverstein)

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Freejack: A Future of Immortality

Paige Molina

(video: Freejack)

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Weird Science: Artificial Intelligence

Elizabeth Ferrell

(video: Weird Science)

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Computers: Friend or Foe?

JoBeth Sage

(video: 2001: A Space Odyssey)

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High Quantity, Low Quality?

Karyn D. Bland

(video: Multiplicity)

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Power of the Mind

Stephanie Gammage

(video: Sphere)

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Alternate Futures in Sliding Doors

Caroline Garner

(video: Sliding Doors)

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Is Time Running Out?

Tina Hower

(video: Signs of the Times with Pat Robertson)

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Can You Imagine?

Audrey Owens

(audio: "Imagine" by John Lennon)

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Alien Colonization

Jennifer Rieck

(video: The X-Files)

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Utopia

Jenifer Hill

(video: Pleasantville)

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Alternative Future

Charles Surber

(video: Johnny Mnemonic)

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Holodeck

[Anonymous]

(video: Star Trek Generations)

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Blowing In The Wind

Michelle Kirby

(audio: "Blowing In The Wind," written by Bob Dylan, sung by Peter Paul and Mary)

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Unmistakable Identification

Lisa McBride

(video: Gattaca)