Synthetic Uncanny
-
Fragments
A Tubular Interstellar Space Craft Patent
Here we have a patent application (US8109471B2) for a “tubular shaped interstellar space craft,” filed on November 14, 2008. It’s…
-
Movies & TV
Dug North And His Amazing Automata
I’ve been fascinated with automata ever since playing Syberia and reading Gaby Wood’s intriguing (if not occasionally out-of-focus) book Edison’s…
-
Fragments
Are We Living In The Matrix?
Plato’s Allegory of the Cave tells of a group of prisoners who have lived their entire lives in chains, facing…
-
Video Games
Digital: A Love Story
I started using the Internet around 1999, when I was about 13 years old. We’d already had a PC for…
Brain Scans Reveal What You See (Sort Of)
Well that’s a bit unnerving. Researchers at UC Berkeley’s Gallant Lab have shown that it’s possible to pull moving images…