Picasso was the first rock-star artist, whose wild visions gripped the public imagination and changed 20th-century art for ever. But his flamboyant personality divided opinion. Was he a playful genius, as some suggest, or a capricious and cruel misanthrope who left battered lives in his wake? On the eve of a new show in London, [...]
The Most Famous Building In Science Fiction There’s one building in Los Angeles that screams “retro-futuristic gothic,” and it was built in 1893. The Bradbury Building featured heavily in Blade Runner, but it’s starred in tons of other stories. Here’s a list. We already toured the Bradbury Building back in 2007, as part of the [...]
For the first time since Hwang Woo-Suk’s cloned stem cells were revealed as fakes, human cloning — for medical purposes, or even for reproduction — appears to be a realistic possibility. “We show for the first time that the same genes turned on in normal human embryos are the same genes turned on in human [...]
The start of the Internet and Computer Technology in 1987 and their visions of the future. Now the futures here, we are it, and we’re on our own.
Google screwed up massively this morning, identifying every page on the Internet as one that could “harm your computer.” Most users would click on a link, and instead of the page requested, recieved a big warning message. This went on for entire hour. The company said that the problem was caused by “human error.” Because [...]
