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“Predicting the Future of Computing
Since no supercomputer can yet predict the future, we need your help. Readers are invited to make predictions and collaboratively edit this timeline, which is divided into three sections: a sampling of past advances, future predictions that you can push forward or backward in time (but not, of course, into the past), and a form for making and voting on predictions.”
Back From The Future? Tutorial: How To Build A Time Machine
Time machines are among the most popular topics of science fiction stories and movies. This beautifully animated short explains in a smart and comprehensible way the real SCIENCE behind time machines.
Earth - Stunning Timelapse Video from ISS
This stunning 5 minutes HD video filmed by the crew of expeditions 28 & 29 onboard the the International Space Station ISS in 2011 with its amazing Aurora Borealis phenomenon gives a fascinating taste of how space travel and space tourism may look and feel in the future.
Editing: Michael König | koenigm.com
Shooting locations in order of appearance:
1. Aurora Borealis Pass over the United States at Night
2. Aurora Borealis and eastern United States at Night
3. Aurora Australis from Madagascar to southwest of Australia
4. Aurora Australis south of Australia
5. Northwest coast of United States to Central South America at Night
6. Aurora Australis from the Southern to the Northern Pacific Ocean
7. Halfway around the World
8. Night Pass over Central Africa and the Middle East
9. Evening Pass over the Sahara Desert and the Middle East
10. Pass over Canada and Central United States at Night
11. Pass over Southern California to Hudson Bay
12. Islands in the Philippine Sea at Night
13. Pass over Eastern Asia to Philippine Sea and Guam
14. Views of the Mideast at Night
15. Night Pass over Mediterranean Sea
16. Aurora Borealis and the United States at Night
17. Aurora Australis over Indian Ocean
18. Eastern Europe to Southeastern Asia at Night
Electronic music score by Jan Jelinek
Astronaut & Architecture
Weird futuristic ballet by German Bauhaus artist & visionary Schlemmer
1970 reconstruction of Oskar Schlemmer’s Triadisches Ballett, originally performed in 1922.
Kraftwerk - The Man Machine - 1970s
GM’s Autonomous Pod Cars Are Coming To A Megacity Near You
GM has autonomous, electric pods that can be summoned by a smartphone and will whisk you, hands-free, to wherever you want to go. They’re almost ready, now we just need to wait for GPS to catch up.
Buckle up! Terrafugia flying car approved for roads
Talk about a way to beat traffic.
Actually, you won’t be able to take off out of gridlock in Terrafugia’s flying car, but at least you’ll be able to drive it on roads to the nearest airport. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) recently granted special exemptions for the Transition “roadable aircraft.”
The exemptions clear the way for shipping to begin from Terrafugia’s Massachusetts plant following testing. The flying car is slated to enter production this year, with shipping in 2012.
» via CNET
Is this a sign that regulations around road traffic transportation are losening up? Since 50+ years the regulations have been a major obstacle to anyone trying to innovate in the area - something we are suffering from hugely when the transportation challenges are piling up for the future.
Sci-Fi Short: There’s Only One Sun
Magical futuristic & surrealistic short-film by iconic arthouse filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai, director of Chungking Express & 2046, that premiered at IFA in Berlin.
ShortOfTheWeek.com explains the special concept behind:
Wong Kar Wai decided in 2007 to team up with Phillips to do an online film… The result manages to admirably traverse that tricky ground between art and commerce, being a worthy addition to the director’s oeuvre while simultaneously an effective commercial. We as audiences are simply treated to an online film of an impressive artistic and technical caliber.
(French version with english subtitles :)
