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 and visionary Jay Weidner (sacredmysteries.com) about the mysteries surrounding 2012. Some of the topics discussed include the galactic alignment, the magnetic field, the sun, the…
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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 died Tuesday in Los Angeles at age 66 after a long battle with the illness. Chrichton was a brand-name author, known for his stories of…
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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 future, died Wednesday, an aide said. He was 90… Co-author with Stanley Kubrick of Kubrick’s film “2001: A Space Odyssey,” Clarke was regarded as far…
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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 with the economic equivalent of 9/11. Gerald Celente, founder and director of the Trends Research Institute in Rhinebeck, claims to accurately forecast economic and business…
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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 top scientist. 100,000 years into the future, sexual selection could mean that two distinct breeds of human will have developed. The alarming prediction comes from…
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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 airborne surveillance payload. The radical new spy system will not be so much an aerial camera as an all-seeing insect-style compound bugeye able to simultaneously…
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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 to work as spies. This year the Pentagon will spend $78 billion – about half of all government research and development dollars – on a…
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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 scoop up even the heaviest of casualties and transport them over long distances over rough terrain. New Scientist magazine reports that the “friendly appearance” of…
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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. The program is called Hybrid Insect Micro Electro Mechanical Systems, or HI-MEMS. In it, the arguably over-caffeined DARPA boffins aim to construct a tiny lepidopterine…
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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 the dystopian visions available in literature and on film, RoboCop (directed by Paul Verhoeven, a Dutchman) created an uncannily plausible vision of American totalitarianism –…
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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 of countries in the Middle East increasing by 132%, while Europe’s drops as fertility falls. “Flashmobs” – groups rapidly mobilised by criminal gangs or terrorists…
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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, H.G. Wells suggests how this planetary political organization could be brought about through education and the management of public opinion. According to Wells, the future…
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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 in 1932, now reads like contemporary news. Huxley’s fearsome predictions of a 26th century world have all come true six centuries early – in vitro…
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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 might even find ourselves standing next to the next generation of vacuum cleaners in the voting booth. Far from being extracts from the extreme end…