The Aircraft Carrier and the Starship The USS Enterprise CVN 65 is, at least indirectly, the most famous of warships. The first aircraft carrier with nuclear engines was the inspiration for the USS…
Soylent Green and the enclosure of collective intelligence. It Was Never Artificial In the summer of 1956, a group of men in surprisingly sharp casual wear sat around at Dartmouth College to invent a…
This is how a god dies, not with a cosmic explosion, not with a descent into eternity, but with the face of a pissed off Englishman calling it a big pile of bollocks. If five years ago you had asked…
Frank Herbert’s Dune is a story that has only grown in stature since its initial publication. Surviving through word of mouth, a cult-classic 1980s David Lynch adaptation, and Denis Villeneuve’s…
“A government of the billionaire class, by the billionaire class, for the billionaire class.” — Bernie Sanders What does it mean when Apple CEO Tim Cook makes a personal donation of $1 million dollars…
“The nature of the ultimate revolution with which we are now faced is precisely this. That we are in process of developing a whole series of techniques which will enable the controlling oligarchy to…
It’s a standing joke that tech billionaires read science fiction warnings and use them as handbooks. They build the Torment Nexus that Do Not Build The Torment Nexus tells them not to build. Elon…
After 42 years we have 1 minute and 10 seconds of Neuromancer on a screen. What does it tell us? Now on the Science Fiction channel Listen to the podcast audio here
We are living in strange times. Politics. Society. Culture wars. Things have gone weird. We’re looking for knowledge and wisdom to guide us in strange times. I can think of no better guide to the year…
