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Self Driving Cars, SF and Reality Overlap Again
BBC reports that Science Fiction is overlapping with reality again, this time in the form of self-driving cars. Nevada has just issued a license to the first self-driven vehicle, a Google car. The...
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Asteroid Apocalypse Prevention
Neil Degrasse Tyson at Wired writes about the risk of a major asteroid collision, and what we can do to prevent it. Currently, it looks doable to develop an early-warning and defense system that could...
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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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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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What Would Reliable Fusion Power Do?
The joke goes that reliable fusion power is about 50 years away, and has been for about 60 years. This may be the case, but it is also a simplistic dismissal of a scientific process that has been...
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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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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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