Tag: futurism
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outside the box #190 (w/ jay weidner)
here is the latest episode of “outside the box,” hosted by alex ansary.it was originally broadcast by portland community media on february 19, 2009. from alex ansary: Alex interviews author […]
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‘illuminated’ author michael crichton dies of cancer
from ap: Michael Crichton, the million-selling author of such historic and prehistoric science thrillers as “Jurassic Park,” “Timeline” and “The Andromeda Strain,” has died of cancer, his family said. He […]
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arthur c. clarke, futurist & sci-fi genius, dead at 90
from ap: Arthur C. Clarke, a visionary science fiction writer who co-wrote “2001: A Space Odyssey” and won worldwide acclaim with more than 100 books on space, science and the […]
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‘futurist’ foresees rough times
from record online: A crashing stock market, a plunging U.S. dollar and tumbling corporate giants are among the predictions of a self-proclaimed “futurist” who says 2008 will hit this country […]
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human race will ‘split into two different species’
from daily mail: The human race will one day split into two separate species, an attractive, intelligent ruling elite and an underclass of dim-witted, ugly goblin-like creatures, according to a […]
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robochoppers, robobugs, radiohead & rudy
boeing robo-chopper for darpa’s super-spyeyefrom uk register: Arms’n’airliners behemoth Boeing has announced that its autonomous robotic stealth chopper, the A160T, will be the initial carrying platform for a new US […]
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news on the march
pentagon funds gay bombs & armed sharksfrom abc: Creating armor that renders a soldier invisible. Stimulating the brain to suppress sleep for days. Arming sharks with chemical implants and cameras […]
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robobear rescues wounded troops
from cryptogon/bbc: The US military is developing a robot with a teddy bear-style head to help carry injured soldiers away from the battlefield. The Battlefield Extraction Assist Robot (BEAR) can […]
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darpa to create brain-chipped cyborg moths
from cryptogon/register uk: Famed US military mad-scientist bureau DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) is engaged in an effort to grow/build cyborg moths for use as spies. No, really. […]
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i’d buy that for a dollar: approaching ‘robocop’ world
from freedom in our time: When I saw that film twenty years ago, it struck me as uncannily prophetic. (I speak of the original, not the pointless sequels.) Of all […]
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revolution, flashmobs, and brain chips
a grim vision of the futurefrom guardian: Information chips implanted in the brain. Electromagnetic pulse weapons. The middle classes becoming revolutionary, taking on the role of Marx’s proletariat. The population […]
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‘salvaging civilization’ eerily close to reality
from post chronicle: To most Americans with a recollection of the Cold War, it was assumed the global superstate would be brought about through military conquest. However, in Salvaging Civilization, […]
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the future has caught up with us
from paul craig roberts: John Derbyshire is the sole remaining adult writing for National Review. In a recent issue he noted that Aldous Huxley’s novel, Brave New World, first published […]
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Things To Come
Things to Come is a 1936 British science fiction film, produced by Alexander Korda and directed by William Cameron Menzies. The screenplay was written by H. G. Wells and is a loose adaptation of his own 1933 novel The Shape of Things to Come.
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UK report says robots will have rights
from financial times: The next time you beat your keyboard in frustration, think of a day where it may be able to sue you for assault. Within 50 years we […]