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Winners of reality shows like American Idol may go home with a ticket to fame and fortune, or risk disappointment, heartbreak, and public humiliation. But could any prize convince contestants to risk death? In upcoming …
Also tagged: film, game, economics, thriller, fortuna, freddy rodriguez, domenic monaghan
With the Y: The Last Man film coming in 2010, we’ll soon get a big-screen treatment of Brian K. Vaughan’s world without men. All-female societies are not uncommon in science fiction, from culturally advanced utopias to …
Also tagged: top, male, female, gender, utopia, triviagasm, single gender
This image of a future city, created by Icelandic concept designer B. Börkur Eiríksson, feels to me like some anachronistic mashup of impressionist art and science fiction. The people in their hats and bonnets look …
Also tagged: war, concept art
What's the worst that can happen if you vote Republican in November? Science fiction has the answer, with a wealth of stories about right-wing policies taken to their most horrendous extremes. We already recounted the …
Also tagged: top, gawker, william gibson, philip k dick, robert heinlein, margaret atwood, robert a heinlein, dystopian futures, dystopias, walter jon williams, right wing dystopias
Yesterday marked the beginning of a new era of economic dystopia — at least, if the stock market is any guide. Former U.S. Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan called the current stock market freefall a …
Also tagged: top, economics, stock market, futurism, mega capitalism
One of the unintended consequences of having constant satellite surveillance over every centimeter of the globe is that it's easy to see how governments screw up. Here is a UNOSAT image from a report on the damage done …
Also tagged: politics, maps, war, georgia, surveillance
Back in May, there were reports that the rebuilt levees in New Orleans were still leaking, despite the fact that storm season had nearly arrived. One example of a leaker was this one, a levee along the Industrial Canal …
Also tagged: new orleans, hurricane, disaster, hurricane gustav
Frogs and other amphibians lived through several mass extinctions on Earth over the past 250 million years, surviving the dinosaur wipeout and the most recent Ice Age. But now, say scientists this week in the …
Also tagged: science, biology, amphibians, apocalypse, frogs, catastrophe, environmental disaster
Frogs and other amphibians lived through several mass extinctions on Earth over the past 250 million years, surviving the dinosaur wipeout and the most recent Ice Age. But now, say scientists this week in the …
Also tagged: science, biology, amphibians, apocalypse, frogs, catastrophe, environmental disaster
paleo-future.blogspot.com » Paleo-Future - Aug 6, 2008
A June 29, 2006 Slate piece by Reihan Salam reflects on futurism and had some fascinating insights. An excerpt appears below. Even so, it's not fair to say that all futurism is misguided. Just most of it. In his 1976 …
Also tagged: slate, 1970s, pessimism, futurism, club of rome, paul ehrlich