100 Sentences – Sentence #1

Posted on July 29, 2009 by Eddie

Hello! I’ve decided, after being asked by an editor at Abrams Image (publisher of lovely art books) what science fiction and fantasy he should be reading, and after many conversations too unremarkable to convey at length by people who dismiss sci-fi but would probably enjoy it, and after a re-read of Junot Diaz’s The Brief [...]

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Tech Tech

Posted on February 3, 2009 by Eddie

As Boing Boing reported earlier this morning, Singularity University is to be unveiled today. The singularity, if you’re unfamiliar, is a term coined by Vernor Vinge that refers to the rapid acceleration of technological change*.  For an example, think of how quickly computers have evolved.  Here’s a graph of the exponential growth in mass use [...]

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And we’re off!

Posted on December 23, 2008 by Eddie

The Space Fellowship is reporting that Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo, which will likely be the first privately owned and developed passenger spacecraft, had a successful maiden flight today. While this piece of news isn’t that “big,” it’s still unspeakably awesome.  That ungainly-looking thing (well, it’s just the wing that’s ungainly-looking; the rest is pretty sleek and [...]

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