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Is 3-D a Fad or a Stepping Stone?

It’s all the rage. All the cool studios are doing it. What’s not to like about 3-D movies and TV? Well, a lot, but I just don’t want to be a naysayer. It’s possible that 3-D will stick around this time for it to develop into something still only seen in SF movies. more…

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10 Interesting Futuristic Materials

Science is just so cool, sometimes. (Well, most of the time.) Accelerating Future » 10 Interesting Futuristic Materials more…

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Stanford Researchers Make Batteries Out of Ink and Paper | Fast Company

OK. This is just stupid cool. Stanford Researchers Make Batteries Out of Ink and Paper more…

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Believe – Part 3, Having Vision

Any intelligence is effectively useless without an ability to perceive that which is external to the intelligence. The key to vision isn’t the how of image gathering, but the processing and interpretation of the images gathered. more…

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Believe – Part 2, The Necessity of Chaos

Construction of our AAI will require many elements to work together for sentience to be achieved. The glue we will use comes from chaos theory. more…

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Believe – The General Purpose AAI Robot Project – Part 1, Overview

Who doesn’t want to build a really smart robot? The trouble is, many people don’t think outside the box enough. Me? I don’t think it needs to be a box. I say we start designing for the possibilities soon to come instead of holding ourselves back. more…

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T:TSCC 0211 – Self Made Man

Analysis and opinions of the season 2 episode “Self Made Man” from Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles more…

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Writer’s Blogk…Noting with Wiki

I finished the first draft of the latest SF novel at the end of this summer, and was faced with the always daunting task of going through the text to figure out what does and doesn’t work, find the continuity errors, etc. This time, my characters were spending a good couple of years jumping around various places on their world. Sometimes with machines that go fast, sometimes on foot, and sometimes in the water. Needless to say, this is a … Continue reading more…

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