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Much effort will be put into the designing of vehicles with "Robot-brains"*vehicles that can be set for particular destinations and that will then proceed there without interference by the slow reflexes of a human driver.
William Gibson interview
Will Insley
"I wanted to imagine whether "CD culture" might also return in the future, and if so, what might drive it and what it might involve."
on Blade Runner, the future, and paper
"Singularity University aims to assemble a world class community of thought leaders, academics, and entreprenuers across the many fields of exponentially advancing technologies (nanotechnology, genetics, medicine, artificial intelligence, etc.) in order to address humanity’s grand challenges."
a book published in 1963 by General Dynamics Astronautics. The book asked politicians, military commanders and scientists to speculate as to where humanity would be, a hundred years hence, in the great push towards space.
"The Eyealike Visual Search (VS) platform is the first enterprise search solution for facial recognition, image detection, and video copyright surveillance."
"The afrofuturist approach to music was first propounded by the late Sun Ra."
"Geminoid is a remote-control doppelganger droid designed by and modeled after Hiroshi Ishiguro"
a blog on retrofuturism !
Russian and/or Soviet propaganda & advert posters [1917-1991]
old concept design drawings from Atari. rrrretro !
"Yesterday’s tomorrow, today."
I found these old magazines last week at the flea market and thought that the graphics on the covers were great.