This is the birthplace of Masahiro Mori and the origin of "The Uncanny Valley" or "Bukimi no Tani."

"Ex Machina" filmed Nathan's mountain in Valldal, Norway

"Ex Machina" filmed Nathan's mountain in Valldal, Norway

The University of California, Berkeley

In the first story of Cloud Atlas, American Adam Ewing waits for repairs for his ship as he sails from his home in San Francisco to the South Pacific in order to execute a will in 1850. While there, he meets Dr. Henry Goose and witnesses a number of strange events including a public flogging by the Maori people. Later, the flogged man stows away on Ewing's ship.

Rodney Brooks joined the faculty at MIT in September 1894 and began work on his various robotics projects. The references to his research and that of his students in Chapter 3 and 4 took place at his MIT lab. 

The setting for most of Brave New World, 632 AF (AD 2540) London is carefully regulated, controlled, and planned

The Savage Reservation, located in New Mexico, is the antithesis of the ordered, controlled London in Brave New World

Alfred Mond's large ammonium nitrate manufacturing plant, dubbed by Huxley as an "ordered universe in the midst of the larger world of planless incoherence," helped inspire the author to pen Brave New World. Alfred Mond is the namesake of Mustapha Mond, Resident World Controller of Western Europe in Huxley's novel.

Where Victor Frankenstein's university is located.