I think I talked about this before, but a lot of what was once far-out science fiction is common place today. Yes, we’re not all driving flying cars and we don’t have colonies on the Moon or Mars, but there is still much about life today that was pure imagination yesterday.
Here are some articles I [...]
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The Future Is Now
Shooting Off Into Space
Once upon a time — it was 1866 — Jules Verne wrote an adventure story in which a group of Americans build a large cannon to shoot the first men to the Moon.
Later, Sir Isaac Newton developed a thought experiment that placed a cannon on a very high mountain that, with the right amount of [...]
The Obsession with Time Travel
A few years ago, I read a couple of book by Paul Nahin: Time Travel and Time Machines: Time Travel in Physics, Metaphysics and Science Fiction. I was so captivated by these books that I actually sent Dr. Nahin an email asking him about this time travel thought I had: If got into a time [...]
The Terror and Appeal of the Machine
Contents
Introduction
The Self vs. The Other
The Computer as Other
The Robot as Other
The TV as Other
The Other becomes a Part of the Self
Conclusion
References
Introduction
There is a thin line between pleasure and pain, so too with fear and attraction. Sherry Turkle (1984) noted that "what disturbs is closely tied to what fascinates and what fascinates is deeply rooted in [...]
