Playboy and LEGO in space

 Posted by at 2:42 pm on March 4, 2012  A century ahead, Writing sci-fi  No Responses »
Mar 042012
 
Playboy and LEGO in space

Two views of leisure in space came across the Martian Sands news feeds a couple of weeks back. One, reported on Space.com and a number of other news organizations, was the illustrated fantasy vision from Playboy and Virgin Galactic of the ultimate pleasure palace, or in this case wheel-shaped space station, going around the world more »

Philosophy of Physics: A Nobel Laureate’s glimpse into the future

 Posted by at 11:47 am on February 19, 2012  A century ahead  No Responses »
Feb 192012
 
Philosophy of Physics: A Nobel Laureate's glimpse into the future

(First in a series of interviews speculating on life 100 years from now.) A faint trail of beeps from the sky in the mid-20th century saved Anthony Leggett from a career in classical philosophy. Those beeps led him instead to a Nobel Prize in physics in the first decade of the 21st century, awarded to more »