Tag: hg wells
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SCOTUS Says Congress May ‘Re-Copyright’ Public Domain Works
from threat level: Congress may take books, musical compositions and other works out of the public domain, where they can be freely used and adapted, and grant them copyright status again, the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. In a 6-2 ruling, the court said that, just because material enters the public domain, it is not “territory…
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‘war of the worlds: the remix project’ on 73rd anniversary of broadcast
thanks to markus in slc for creating this wotw remix! from archive.org: On October 30, 1938, one of the most controversial and infamous media broadcasts occurred when Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre on the Air performed their adaptation of H.G. Welles’ classic science fiction novel “The War of the Worlds.” Their radio play generated…
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daily dose of terror: drills, darpa, sims & dew
darpa sims, directed energy weapons darpa wants sim to ‘resurrect’ battlefield traumafrom danger room: Far-off commanders can already watch battles unfold, thanks to spy drones, streaming video overhead. They can read after-action reports, to learn how troops on the ground experienced the fight. But those officers don’t have detailed, digitally-animated simulations, merging all that info…
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70th anniversary of ‘war of the worlds’ psyop; sequel soon?
october 30, 2008 is the 70th anniversary of the legendary radio broadcast by orson welles. as a long-time radio & welles fan, i’ve always been fascinated by the wotw psyop. and now, as we’re on the edge of another new world war/order, my suspicion is that we are ripe for another amazing psyop… but the…
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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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‘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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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.

