Archive for the ‘entertainment’ category: Page 89
Sep 18, 2017
Philip K Dick’s Electric Dreams, Channel 4
Posted by Derick Lee in category: entertainment
Decades on, his work remains an irresistible trove of ideas for film-makers to plunder. Philip K Dick’s Electric Dreams, which begins on Sunday (Channel 4, 9pm), is an ambitious series of 10 one-hour films based on his stories, with different casts and creative teams.
An ambitious series of 10 one-hour films based on the stories of the sci-fi writer.
Sep 14, 2017
Unexpected Futurist: Mark Twain, Tesla, and a Worldwide Visual Telephone System
Posted by Johnny Boston in categories: education, entertainment, fun, futurism, internet, media & arts, mobile phones, rants
When one thinks of Mark Twain, one thinks of folksy wit, Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer and the Mississippi River. Twain’s work immortalized the rapidly changing United States of the 1800s. But in his personal life, Twain often preferred the future to nostalgia, supporting women’s suffrage and civil rights, and frequently being contemptuous of what he considered to be the absurd and corrupt values of the past. He harbored a long running fascination with technology and new gadgets, and frequently invested in the latter — albeit with spotty success, at best. But Twain cemented his becoming an honorary futurist via his long friendship with inventor and Mad-scientist archetype Nikola Tesla.
Sep 12, 2017
Brain Dead Patients Could Be Brought ‘Back to Life’ in Groundbreaking Stem Cell Therapy
Posted by Carse Peel in categories: biotech/medical, entertainment
This is not about creating zombies-those so-called living (or walking) dead that are very popular and make a really great theme for TV shows and movies.
Even the Game of Thrones has its version of the living dead with them nasty creatures called White Walkers and Wights.
But then again, that’s only science fiction, isn’t it? Well, maybe not. In fact, this science-fiction plot could soon play out in real life. Read on.
Sep 7, 2017
Should We be Cautious about Envisioning Dystopias?
Posted by Johnny Boston in categories: entertainment, ethics, existential risks, futurism, human trajectories, media & arts, philosophy, transhumanism
How will our relationship to technology evolve in the future? Will we regard it as something apart from ourselves, part of ourselves, or as a new area of evolution? In this new video from the Galactic Public Archives, Futurist Gray Scott explains that we are a part of a technological cosmos. Do you agree with Scott that technology is built into the universe, waiting to be discovered?
Sep 7, 2017
Unexpected Futurist: Ben Franklin envisions 2776 — and Cryonics
Posted by Johnny Boston in categories: aging, cryonics, education, entertainment, futurism, health, human trajectories, innovation, media & arts, science, time travel
In Unexpected Futurist, we profile the lesser known futurist side of influential individuals. This episode’s unexpected time-traveler: Benjamin Franklin. Ben Franklin was an inventor, observer, electricity pioneer, and serial experimenter, so it’s not entirely surprising he looked to the future. But it turns out he was looking to the far, far future. In 1780 he wrote a letter to a friend in which he lamented that he was born during the dawn of science.
Sep 7, 2017
CGI keeps getting better and better!
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: entertainment, robotics/AI
Sep 2, 2017
Online game challenges players to design on/off switch for CRISPR
Posted by Carse Peel in categories: biotech/medical, computing, entertainment, genetics
A Stanford team has launched a new challenge on the Eterna computer game. Players will design a CRISPR-controlling molecule, and with it open the possibility of new research and therapies.
A team of researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine has launched a new challenge for the online computer game Eterna in which players are being asked to design an RNA molecule capable of acting as an on/off switch for the gene-editing tool CRISPR/Cas9.
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Sep 2, 2017
Watch a ‘Blade Runner 2049’ Prequel Short Film Starring Jared Leto
Posted by Derick Lee in category: entertainment
As we approach the release of the highly anticipated sequel Blade Runner 2049, Warner Bros. is offering fans a tantalizing tease for the movie that’s sure to entice even greater interest. We at Collider are happy to exclusively premiere an “in-world” piece that explains what happened in the world of Blade Runner between the first movie, set in 2019, and this sequel, set in 2049.
We have your exclusive look at the Blade Runner 2049 short film “2036: Nexus Dawn” which reveals what happened in 2036 relating to Jared Leto’s character.
One would have to have been literally living under a rock to miss the recent solar eclipse, but for those who either didn’t have a great view or were far outside the path of totality, Google’s ‘Eclipse Megamovie 2017’ is a solid alternative. The video, available on YouTube, sources images of the eclipse shot by volunteers to create a timelapse of the total eclipse as it passed across the continental United States.
