Sci-Friday 04.
Grant Morrison’s The Invisibles, which, at times, bordered on genius.
What exactly is a fiction suit? And how many times do we have to tell a story before it becomes real?
The Masturbatory Sigil.
The Supercontext.
The Slipstream.
The Singularity.
Raymond Kurzweil and Spiritual Machines. And Barack Obama.
Deep Blue and Deep Fritz.
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid and I Am A Strange Loop, both by Douglas Hofstadter.
24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai by Roger Zelazny.
The Man Who Sold The Moon by Robert Heinlein and The Man Who Sold The World by David Bowie. And The Man Who Fell To Earth, the 1976 film by Nicholas Roeg based on the book by Walter Tevis.
Cthulhu, black holes, and robots.
Daniel Pinchbeck and Reality Sandwich.
You can’t travel back in time, scientists say.
The World Future Society.
