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Black Mirror - 0 views

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  • weismans95 on 09 Dec 14
     
    This dark and often disturbing mini-series covers many themes from this class. Each episode questions the role of different technologies in society: from recording memories to talent shows. The episode "Be Right Back" is especially relevant to our discussions of cyborgs and AI.
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"We will need writers who can remember freedom": Ursula K Le Guin at the National Book ... - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 20 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine some real grounds for hope. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries—the realists of a larger reality.
  • We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art—the art of words.
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Ex Machina move trailer - 1 views

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  • weismans95 on 18 Nov 14
     
    Yet another take on the cyborg/robot/AI story
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untitled - 0 views

www.onthemedia.org/...survivor-library future futures technology disaster disasters libraries information media
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  • Ed Webb on 15 Nov 14
     
    In 1959, a solar storm threw an electromagnetic pulse at Earth so strong it fried the telegraph system. A whole lot more is on the line now.
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Going up! Cosmic elevator could reach space on a cable made of diamonds - 0 views

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  • katiegimbert on 12 Nov 14
     
    A Japanese construction company, Obayashi Corporation, has been investigating the concept for a space elevator. Their researchers believe that advances in carbon nanotechnology could make a space elevator possible as soon as 2030. (CNN) -- Want to ride an elevator into space?
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The Right Chemistry: Soylent is no longer just a science-fiction concoction - 0 views

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  • colburcl on 07 Nov 14
     
    Soylent Green is here, people. Kind-of. The bigger question: can they make it taste like Nutella?
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China officials 'bought corpses' - 1 views

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  • crawforz on 07 Nov 14
     
    However, the Chinese government has encouraged cremations to save land for farming and development.
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Light Memory Experiment Affects Mice Brains Like An MIB Neuralyzer - 1 views

www.makeuseof.com/...eriment-mice-brains-neuralyzer sci-fi technology memory
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  • straussr on 07 Nov 14
     
    Scientists think they've found a way to alter memory using beams of light... Freaky stuff.
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Don't Get Too Excited About That New "Hoverboard" Just Yet - 0 views

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  • weismans95 on 02 Nov 14
     
    Only works on metallic surfaces...limited battery life...tough to ride. The hoverboard from Uglies will soon be a disappointing reality.
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