"Fringe Science Warning Signs" by (?) Anders Sandberg ( 64.media.tumblr.com )
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Discussion thread for the latest installment of Pierce Brown’s Red Rising series....
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What do cell phones look like in the year 2144?...
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“I hope the future will be like Star Trek, but I’m afraid it’s going to be like Babylon 5.”
Misha Burnett has little formal education, but has been writing poetry and fiction for around forty years. During this time he has supported himself and his family with a variety of jobs, including locksmith, cab driver, and building maintenance. His first four novels, Catskinner’s Book, Cannibal Hearts, The Worms Of Heaven,...
The title comes from the article, but I agree with some of these changes. It’s making for an engaging show that also feels modern.
In this book Genly Ai is sent to the planet Gethen on behalf of the Ekumen, an alliance of human societies residing on far flung planets, to acquaint the inhabitants with the existence of the Ekumen and convince them to join the alliance. The Gethenians are unique: every individual has the potential to be a man or a woman during...
Gauging interest in having weekly discussion threads for Strange Planet. Star Trek SNW just finished so looking to add a series. Any other suggestions are more than welcome as well.
I suppose this is considered science fiction. I believe it has just started airing. I’ve seen the comics on occasion around the internet and had no idea they were planning on adapting this into a series....
For no reason whatsoever here’s a proposal for a scale for the threat to humanity posed by machine intelligence....
First published in Nature magazine, November 1999....
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Carmen Miranda’s Ghost 05 - Some Kind of Hero...
Based on my calculations we should have at least 10,000 subscribers. It seems like the subscriber count only shows for whatever particular instance you are on, but adding together the subscriber count of the major instances exceeds 10,000....
Who needs human when you have AI :p
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Science fiction flourished from the earliest days of the Soviet Union. A rare space to explore other realms and utopian dreams of progress. But with the Soviet Union’s collapse different narratives bubbled up....