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Book Review: Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson
Robopocalypse is a near future apocalyptic story written in the form of transcripts and summaries of a variety of key events in a “War with the Robots”. The concept of an advanced AI choosing to rebel...
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It Won’t be Like in Star Trek
George Divorsky has an article over at IO9 talking about how the Star Trek vision of the future has been overtaken by events and become another quaint SF anachronism. Instead, the future will be far...
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Drones versus Humans: The End of Navies
Image from Future Atlas. Over at Future Atlas, a very real question is raised about the viability of hugely expensive nuclear submarines in a future environment that includes autonomous underwater...
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The Plausibility of a Dyson Sphere.
George Dvorsky over at IO9 has a thought-provoking article outlining how humans might go about building a Dyson Sphere in our solar system. Given the implausibility of long-distance space travel in...
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SpaceX Falcon Launch & the Implications of Private Space Exploration
So SpaceX is going ahead with launching their Falcon Rocket on a mission to the ISS tomorrow. Good on them, and I wish them the best of luck. Not because I wish ill on NASA or any of the other...
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Ubiquitous Surveillance and the Profit Motive
We are all becoming increasingly aware of the commodification of our daily activities, especially online activities. The cycle of ‘Facebook Privacy’ scandals continue, and most of us (myself included)...
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Anonymity in the Age of Panopticon
How would a person remain anonymous and/or protect her privacy in the age of endless tracking, database building and modelling by ever more sophisticated computers? Currently our search engines and...
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Can we go to Alpha Centauri?
Alpha Centauri This artist’s impression made available by the European Southern Observatory on Tuesday, shows a planet, right, orbiting the star Alpha Centauri B, center, a member of the triple star...
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The Great Filter
We know now that our galaxy is filled with rocky planets, a percentage of which will almost certainly fall within the category of ‘earth-like’. (100 billion stars mean even a 1:1000000 chance allows...
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Book Review: 2312 By Kim Stanley Robinson
Any avid reader knows that good books come in many forms. Some are fast, accessible, satisfying stories that demand little from the reader yet present exciting adventures and creative new ideas. Many...
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