Hints and tips:
...Letter in response to this article: Chicago’s skyscrapers are actually well-grounded / From Jean Bogner, Research Professor Emerita, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of...
...I was on a long flight to Asia this past week and took the opportunity to read Paolo Bacigalupi’s wonderful dystopian sci-fi novel The Windup Girl....
...My first thought after reading your Note was about the HBO Max series Made for Love, a sci-fi comedy horror show about a woman who escapes from her marriage after discovering her tech billionaire husband...
...Richard Waters responds Rana, I’m impressed by the taste in sci-fi movies you showed last week, it’s more sophisticated than mine....
...Sci-fi fans may remember the oft-repeated sixties TV series, The Twilight Zone....
...Among a field of big hitters are also the sci-fi blockbuster Dune, Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story, and Belfast, Kenneth Branagh’s coming-of-age story....
...Flying cars have been the next big thing for decades, from the aerial buses in Fritz Lang’s 1927 film Metropolis to the battered police cruisers of Ridley Scott’s 1982 sci-fi movie Blade Runner....
...I’ll leave out the sci-fi and fantasy recommendations here but feel free to email!...
...Into the metaverse: how sci-fi shapes our attitudes to the future From The Terminator to Japanese manga, powerful narratives drive fear or reassurance around tech....
...“It’s not like it’s sci-fi, it’s actual,” says Thomas. “We flooded the zone....
...Tech correspondent Madhumita Murgia examines how sci-fi shapes our attitude to the future....
...(FT) “We’re living in a Terminator sci-fi world,” said one US activist perfecting the craft of anti-surveillance, in a terrific piece in the FT Magazine by Hannah Murphy....
...A “gizmo” that makes food from nothing is exactly how the crew of the Starship Enterprise fed itself and, even by the standard of 1960s sci-fi, sounds improbable....
...But prohibitive tax hurdles and a toxic tail of liabilities meant the Blob, like the star of the 1958 sci-fi horror film of the same name, has proved remarkably hard to kill....
...Future Affairs Administration, a Beijing start-up, is cultivating and testing hundreds of writers through workshops and early career management....
...China’s Ministry of Agriculture and General Administration of Customs said in a joint statement on Saturday that China would stop accepting pork and related products from Germany....
...He laments the fact that the Trump administration has gone “deliberately and horrifically backward” on climate policy....
...Even Donald Trump’s administration in December began consulting on an executive order to “liberate” publicly funded research, according to people briefed on the process....
...A self-described “political junkie”, he had told confidants that AT&T’s mis-steps with HBO were reminiscent of the George W Bush administration’s Iraq war. The lesson: “Don’t invade.”...
...The next day the SCI rebounded....
...For now, a toy rocket — or an Arthur C Clarke novel — is still the best Christmas present to give a sci-fi-obsessed child....
...Jacket, €1,500, ssense.com Sci-fi sunglasses Remember the character Trinity’s sunglasses from the 1999 dystopian future-based film The Matrix?...
...Today, China has top billing in the Trump administration’s national security and defence strategies....
...Utilisation was just 48 per cent last year, according to SCI Verkehr....
...Professor Kokas points to recent movies such as Arrival and The Martian, two sci-fi films that portray American and Chinese characters working together....
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