Feed the Machine: Life, Camera, (RN)Action!
Clicketh and Readeth This week’s FtM will be short and sweet. Simply, what would happen if scientists tried to create new life in the lab using RNA reactors and succeeded? What if they put this lifeform in a hothouse and rapidly accelerated its evolution? What would come out of it? What would be the social, […]
Feed the Machine: Ah, My Eye!
Clicketh This article is incredibly cool. I think biological based SF is poised for an explosion. Most Hard SF is based upon physics or astronomy. Sometimes nanotech, which is an offshoot of chemistry, but the advances being made in biology are exceeding what we are coming up with in SF. This article immediately made me […]
Feed the Machine: Love Me True
Read me. What is this world coming to? Jesse Schell interviews Bob Bates, game designer and former chair of the IGDA. In it, Bates predicts a few future changes in video games, but the one that is really interesting has to do with player-character interaction. He believes that soon, players will build real […]
Feed the Machine: Cyclops Power
Read this article before proceeding. Growing up, I didn’t read comics, but that doesn’t mean I was unaware of comics. I knew the rudimentary figures of comic book lore. My favorite superhero, however, was Cyclops. How cool would it be to shoot laser beams out of your eyes! Getting into the genres more, laser beam […]
Feed the Machine: Viral Time
Welcome to Feed the Machine, my weekly column for this ne’er-too-oft visited corner of the Interweb. Here, I take a science article and twist it to make science fictional ideas that you all can have, free of charge. For the first installment, read this article called “Viral Time” by Carl Zimmer on the Long Now […]
