I just love this opening scene (to Contact).
I just love this opening scene (to Contact).
The possibilities for large-scale deception using technology like this are growing to a troubling degree.
“On Thursday the 20th of May 2010, Samsung was the first to introduce a large-scale commercial 3D-Outdoor projection in the Netherlands, at the Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam. Between 22.30 and 00.30 on the evenings of the 20th, 21st and 22nd of May, the public was able to view the addition of a new dimension to this historic building. “
Sean Carroll on time-travel
Alain de Botton on the Pleasures and Sorrows of Work. This is the author speaking about his book, which I found to be very good.
Beautiful.
Robots and dogs: two things I like.
Life Without Memory: The Case of Clive Wearing
via BLDGBLOG:
Called The Transcendent City, the film documents what Hardy describes as “an autonomous artificial machine that extends across the earth adapting to the natural eco-systems it encounters while deriving its energy from the renewable resources available at each particular site. The systems desire is to maintain homeostasis within itself whilst maintaining homeostasis within the greater system, Gaia. Its processes are engineered on the molecular scale by nano technologies controlled by molecular computers that monitor and analyse the environment.”
13 Hours in 10 Minutes (via)
Writing in my office…
Cold Freezin’ Night by The Books
