In what is either one of the most novel or frightening stories involving 3D printing and genetic research, it seems that an artist named Heather Dewey-Hagborg has been using the technology to recreate the faces of litterbugs. This may sound like something out of a dystopian novel – using a high-tech scenario to identify perpetrators […]
Movie Trailer Monday: Elysium
Hello people and welcome back to another installment of MTM! Today, its a full-length trailer for the upcoming movie Elysium, a dystopian tale that takes place in the year 2159, where the class divide between rich and poor extends into orbit. The very wealthy live on a man-made space station (named Elysium) while the rest […]
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Of Cybernetic Hate Crimes
Last week, a bar in Seattle banned the use of Google Glass. The pub declared on their Facebook page that if anyone wanted to order a pint, they had better remove their $1500 pair of augmented reality display glasses beforehand. Citing the glasses potential to film or take pictures and post them on the internet, […]
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Relaunching an Idea: Genome!
In recent months, I did what I often do when I find myself in the midst of a few projects, where none of them are occupying my attenti0n completely. I went back to an old idea that never got finished, but which I felt pretty passionate about at the time. This idea was one a […]
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The Future is Here: Brain to Brain Interfaces!
And I thought the month of February was an already exciting time for technological breakthroughs! But if a recent report from Nature.com is any indication, February will go down in history as the biggest month for breakthroughs ever! Why just last week, researchers in Natal, Brazil created the first ever electronic link between the brains […]
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ROSA: A Post-Apocalyptic Sci-Fi Short
Just came across this on Wired.com, a sci-fi short about a futuristic cyborg assassin that is tasked with restoring the world’s ecosystems. That’s the basic premise of ROSA, the brain child of resident Jesús Orellana, an amateur director based in Barcelona who released this movie to the world last year. After premiering at the Seattle […]
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The Hunger Games You Didn’t See
You know how Hollywood will announce an upcoming movie, and will usually precede any trailers by releasing special info like who’s attached to direct and who will be starring in it? Believe it or not, there’s actually an interesting selection process that leads up to this. Yeah, I was surprised too. Given what I’ve learned […]
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Relaunching an Idea: Apocrypha!
by storiesbywilliams on January 5, 2013 in Future, Ideas, Novels, Science, Technology and tagged apocalypse, apocalyptic, apocalypticism, BosWash, cascadia, climate change, crashland, cyberpunk, dystopian, future, grim5next, hunluan, mega cities, Nanjing Peninsula, pappa zulu, post-apocalypse, science fiction, social commentary, speculative fiction, Taiheiyo Belt, technological singularity, technology, the blue banana, the Gangetic Plain, worlds undone, yuva
Recently, I began to seriously contemplate revisiting an old idea. Not just any old idea, mind you. This was an idea that went back to 2008, to the point where I first decided I wanted to move away from far-reaching, distant future speculative writing. It was also my first real stab at social commentary, predating […]
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