When I was fourteen, I became obsessed with ‘The Legend of Zelda’. Although my father played Atari games occasionally, he did not understand…
The town of ‘Eureka’ may be rolling up it’s sidewalks, but the vision will live on. Bob Brumley, the chief executive officer of…
It seems cyborgs are the rage this week. The game ‘Deus Ex: Human Revolution’, which features a cyborg protagonist, was released this past…
I recently had a chance to view the half-hour video, “The ‘Something from Nothing’ Universe” with its subtitle: “Exposing the supernatural phenomena behind…
Michael Shermer’s ‘Skeptic’ column in Scientific American is billed as “Viewing the world with a rational eye”. In his latest piece ‘The Myth…
In Greg Egan’s ‘Permutation City’ Paul Durham copies his consciousness into a computing substrate. While technically awesome, this may seem to you conceptually…
“The logistic computer calculates that we have about a 62% chance of success, should we attempt to destroy the enemy base. Unfortunately, we…