It has morphed from a purely fictional drama into a mirror for reality.
Pedulla said employer interest in his fictional applicants reflected what kind of signals the applicant's most recent job history sent to hiring managers, including how competent they were and how committed they were to their careers.
Replicating the Voight-Kampff machine, a fictional interrogation tool, the research team created a device that mimics this emotion-detector.
After its attempts to digest romance novels, one of Google's artificial intelligence projects is now accidentally writing poetry, some of which would make the fictional Vogons proud.
The series' fictional entrepreneurs start using the catchphrase "Making the world a better place" to justify all their ideas, however bad.
The first part involved 333 adults acting out a fictional scenario where they were an accounting department manager interviewing a potential employee.
Perhaps no fictional work resonates more throughout the industry these days than "Ready Player One," written by Ernest Cline and now being made into a movie by Steven Spielberg.
The series, set in the fictional Yorkshire country estate Downton Abbey, depicts the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era - with the great events of history affecting their lives and the British social hierarchy.
The authors of that study and this new one argue that a complex fictional narrative forces the reader or viewer to consider a problem from multiple perspectives; further, since not every character's emotion is explicitly spelled out, the audience must do some mental work to fill in those gaps, making a guess at the inner lives of the character.
According to a Times Education Supplement survey of 1,200 educators, two characters from the Harry Potter series grabbed prominent places in education's 50 favourite fictional teachers.
For while fictional diarists Bridget Jones and Adrian Mole used journals to record their woes and embarrassments, paying attention to the things that lift our moods mean we can learn how to cheer ourselves up, says a leading physicist.
Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was once offered a passport bearing number 007 – the code number for fictional MI6 agent James Bond.
They then paired each picture to one of two fictional scenarios.
Rowling base their fictional stories on true facts.
The story, which revolves around the high-level executives and staff at a fictional advertising agency in New York City, has redefined how complex a TV drama can be.
The CVs contained fictional personal details, were designed to make the candidates sound appealing and included good qualifications and work experience.
In the first experiment, 241 adults were asked to evaluate fictional job candidates based on fake qualifications and experience, in an online setting.
The first is Lars Mikkelsen who plays fictional Russian President Victor Petrov.
So when your ego starts to fill you with doubt and fear, remember it's a fictional story.
(In 2001, in a canny move to encourage tourism to this remote spot, the Chinese government renamed the region of Zhongdian after the fictional remote utopian lamasery in Hilton's book.
