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Ray Bradbury famously couldn't stand the internet, but now an internet error code "451" is being proposed when access to a page is being denied because of censorship. What a great tribute to the man.
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  • Perspective check: Today's real life is yesterday's science fiction, or how today might look from as far back as 1995.  (thanx [livejournal.com profile] andrewducker)
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  • I've clearly never visited the Uncanny Valley because I am not creeped out by this at all. And what's more, it's Danish. Will someone please make a Philip K. Dick robot that looks this good?



    Via.
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  • The Physics arXiv Blog on why our universe must have been born inside a Black Hole: "The idea that new universes can be created inside black holes and that our own may have originated in this way has been the raw fodder of science fiction for many years." Which SF stories have used this as a premise?
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  • Futurology: the tricky art of knowing what will happen next. Geoffrey Hoyle revisits his 1972 book 2010: Living in the Future.
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  • Did a classic piece of science fiction predict the WikiLeaks revelations? Tim Martin delves into John Brunner's The Shockwave Rider.
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  • A skyscraper like no other: Taiwan to build 390-meter tower with floating observatory blimps.
  • Shamelessly nicked from the best ever Thunderbirds episode: the instant road-laying machine.
  • peteryoung: (Flying Spaghetti Monster)
    "I've not been so excited about a bacteria since my STD tests came back clean." Re. today's NASA announcement: okay, it's not red dwarfs from Mars, it's the discovery of some mad microbe that utilises arsenic instead of phosphorus. Woah. This is actually big news for our understanding of life on Earth. (via [livejournal.com profile] purplecthulhu)

    EDIT: As imagined by Stanley Weinbaum in 1935. (Thanx [livejournal.com profile] ffutures).

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