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ENDER’S GAME — Trailer [youtube.com] SEE ALSO: Drexler Spacesuit TF Skin Cradle VISOR Projected Reality Utility Fog

Psycho-history combines psychological factors with elements of social sciences studies to create a methodology for understanding motivations of important historical events. Isaac Asimov started with this real concept, included some ideas on mathematical statistics, and presented it in his science fiction as a technique to make predictions about how masses of people will behave in [...]

Liquid crystals are substances that have some form of crystalline structure and exhibit some characteristics of crystals but flow like a liquid. They form long thin molecules that have either some electromagnetic component or an optical component such as light polarization. Liquid Crystal Displays (LCD) use these electrical and optical qualities of liquid crystals to [...]

for background info, SEE ALSO: The Kardashev Scale Singularity Theory May Explain Fermi Paradox The Evolution of Civilization The Kardashev scale describes the evolution of civilizations according to a grand scale of energy consumption. Stage I civilizations can consume energy on a planetary scale, Stage II on a stellar scale, and Stage III on a [...]

Since our current growth rate in some areas of technology is accelerating toward a singularity threshold, it is difficult to predict what our civilization will be like in only a few hundred years. To describe civilization a thousand years from now is nearly impossible to accomplish with any confidence of accuracy. It might be reasonable [...]

Our Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence (SETI) programs scan the cosmos for tell-tale electromagnetic traces of other civilizations. They hope to find a beacon announcing the presence of an intelligent species out among the stars, but they also are looking for any signal that might indicate intelligence even though it is not intended as an announcement. [...]

This short film depicts the animation of Kara, an android. “Kara” by Quantic Dream – [youtube.com] SEE ALSO: Self-conscious Intelligence 1709 – Vaucanson – bio AI Rights AI Trust Issues

Events in the “real” world take place in an analog fashion. That means they move and grow and change smoothly instead of in digital jumps. In order to understand them and manipulate our understanding more easily, we like to represent them with digits and whole number integers, but that is an incorrect semantic mapping and [...]

Bruce Branit shows us how we will create virtual worlds: World Builder – [youtube.com] A strange man uses holographic tools to build a world for the woman he loves. This is a short by filmmaker Bruce Branit known also as the co-creator of 405. BRANITFX – [branitfx.com] 405 – [405themovie.com]

Gamma rays are a form of electromagnetic radiation, or waves of photons, that have a very short wavelength and corresponding high frequency. They are associated with the decay of high energy states in atomic nuclei and are considered to be a high energy form of radiation. When stars that are burning out at the end [...]