Category Archives: futuristic musings

On Saturday evening I lost power. I do get a lot of brownouts around here, but this was different. It was around 7pm, and all of a sudden I found myself in total darkness. Fortunately I always keep a LED … Continue reading →

The old hacker motto used to be “information wants to be free”. This was the driving philosophy of the 80’s and the 90’s when the Internet was going through it’s awkward onset of puberty, and turbulent teenage years. We currently … Continue reading →

Let’s talk about immortality. The concept of eternal life has been present in our fiction since the ancient times but in most cases it was the domain of supernatural being such as gods, faeries, spirits, vampires and etc. In most … Continue reading →

Recently I watched both Dawn of the Dead and Shaun of the Dead as well as some other random oldish Zombie flicks they were airing on TV recently. So I have been thinking recently – what would you do? Let’s … Continue reading →

You gotta love Foxtrot for asking these deep questions: click to see the original This is your homework for today – go home and ponder this. I typed up this long insightful thing about this question really being a question … Continue reading →

The other day I was thinking about space combat as featured on most Scifi Shows and movies. In most cases, most ships have some kind of FTL engines that allow them to make “jumps”, enter hyperspace or whatever. But then … Continue reading →

Someone has finally implemented a working Whuffie system! I always figured it was just a matter of time. But I’m not really all that mpressed with bitchun.org – their Whufie engine it’s just a Skype plugin. Sorry, but an extension … Continue reading →

Someone sent me this interesting mega-scale space colony image: click to enlarge Now, can anyone tell me what kind of megastructure would this be? I’m thinking that this is either O’Neil Cylinder, a Stanford Taurus or a Topopolis. Actually, both … Continue reading →

I absolutely despise the voice recognition phone systems employed by the likes of Fedex or Microsoft. Every time I have to call them, I feel like an idiot talking to the pre-recorded voice on the other end. Note, I have … Continue reading →

I was reading Lifehacker, and I found this article about pulling all-nighters. It’s all nice and dandy but there is nothing in that article that wouldn’t be common sense, and self explanatory. What is the point of giving advice such … Continue reading →

Can we please establish something once and for all: Science ∩ Religion = ∅ I might be one of the very few people who think this way, but I believe this to be true. Religion and Science are mutually exclusive. … Continue reading →