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Unlocking the fourth dimension

Unlocking the fourth dimension

Don’t trust the right thing done for the wrong reason. The why of the thing, that’s the foundation.

Wolf in the woods - Here

Siberian Wolf smile

And as he looks at her, the flesh of his muzzle burns and curls into his first and last smile.

What if the Library of Congress was a Quantum Reality? (Freepik image)

What if the Library of Congress was a Quantum Reality?

Because physics is about our being in the world and our connection to creation. To the universe. To God. And also to the great libraries. Crazy cool, I tell you.

Steins;Gate and Time Travels: No time to die... twice.

Steins;Gate and Time Travels: No time to die... twice.

When I first saw the Steins;Gate anime, I was struck by the incredibly “slow” atmosphere. The surreal overlay of events immediately captivated me and I wasn't disappointed.

Screenshot from: Schrodinger’s Theory of Consciousness [here]

Did Schrödinger choose the cat because it had nine lives?

If I put the cat in the box with the poison, how do I know if it is dead or alive? It will always be in a state of being alive and dead at the same time until I lift the lid. But isn't that obvious? Actually, no.

Doctor Who Weekly - Marvel Comics - n. 1 Oct 17, 1979

Doctor Who: Bigger on the inside than the outside

I don’t think it’s possible to explain it, how do you explain the implications of being a "Time Lord" with two hearts? A time-traveling humanoid who uses a blue police box as a time machine, and a screwdriver to solve the most bizarre and surreal situations?

Ballard’s High Rise: An unconscious diagram of a mysterious psyche

Ballard’s High Rise: An unconscious diagram of a mysterious psyche

Can people's behavior be influenced by a certain type of dwelling? Why do civilizations descend into chaos? Or, rather, why do individuals degenerate into chaos when they are placed in certain conditions?

Star Wars (1977) poster, British | Original Film Posters Online | Collectibles | Sotheby's

Star Wars: The Force was with George Lucas

In 1977, a young director, George Lucas, released what would become the greatest science fiction saga of all time: Star Wars. But we should immediately think about the word "science fiction" in relation to these films: Myth, epic, narrative adventure also coexist in Star Wars.

Root Legacy: To the Edge of Consciousness

Root Legacy: Cyberpunk/SciFi novel - English Edition

FATAL ERROR. NO WAY OUT. RUN. Net -a brilliant, unruly hacker- must make a choice: trust the Swarm of voices activates in his head or not.

The Quantum Frontier: Why Quantum Science Fiction Can Open New Horizons

The Quantum Frontier: Why Quantum Science Fiction Can Open New Horizons

Quantum physics may represent a revolution in the scientific paradigm, a change of vision and the opening of a horizon that science fiction can help to understand.

Blade Runner's Replicants: AIs, Identity, Memory and Neurorights

Blade Runner's Replicants: AIs, Identity, Memory and Neurorights

There are risks connected to the use of robotics and AI technologies. Can an artificial intelligence create a Memory of itself? Remembrances? Lives?

Science Fiction's Journey: Where SciFi came from and why?

A Science Fiction Journey: Where does Sci-Fi come from?

How define the origin of the science fiction? It is near impossible. You would have to trace the entire path of stories, plots, novels, short stories, narratives of all kinds.

Lost in the Shell: Flash and shorts around SciFi

Lost in the Shell: Flash and shorts around SciFi - English Edition

17 stories in this collection. A bizarre and disturbing journey through consciousness, science fiction, cyberpunk and technology.

Relativity vs. quantum mechanics in black holes: The boundary between science and science fiction

Relativity vs. quantum mechanics in black holes: The boundary between science and science fiction

While science fiction have often distorted the properties of black holes, it has just as often managed to capture the intriguing nature of these astrophysical objects

The X-Files - Scully and Mulder

Cult SciFi Series: Why was The X-Files so successful?

A cult, a monster-of-the-week style show centering on the FBI's unsolved cases. But why was it so successful?

The Outers: What if even they couldn't stop it?

The Outers: What if even they couldn't stop it? - SciFi novel

In a neurotic world of Cybermen and Snervants Arthur Donovan finds himself embroiled with the charming profiler Himna in a financial-political AI intrigue.

Dust short film scene - image from Filmaffinity website

Dust, the short SciFi by Jason Gallaty, Josh Grier & Mike Grier

The world is changing rapidly. New species evolve to adapt to changing ecosystems. Technology and tradition coexist as symbiotic opposites that divide rural people from city dwellers. Nature provides a constant challenge in the midst of this turmoil. This is Dust by Mike Grier.

Artificial intelligence, science fiction and everyday life

Artificial intelligence, science fiction and everyday life

Generative AI products can produce written, graphical, and audio content or software programs with minimal human involvement, but also flat creative output and minimize the importance of human emotions and feelings involved in the creative process.

Ballard: four novels Under the sign of the Apocalypse

Ballard: four novels Under the sign of the Apocalypse

The apocalyptic scenario is one that many of James G. Ballard's characters have to face. Ballard is a science fiction writer and noble father of speculative cyberpunk. His stories unfold under the sign of the Apocalypse, the Revelation of a new dystopic world.

Cyberpunk: On social and cultural meaning of a literary movement

Cyberpunk: On social and cultural meaning of a literary movement

The fictional genre known as cyberpunk has deep political and cultural roots, with great authors such as William Gibson and Neal Stephenson shaping its development and success. 'Cyberpunk is a comet that has passed through the skies of speculative fiction and exploded in its heyday. We will long sail

Are Cyberpunk and Science Fiction dead?

Are Cyberpunk and Science Fiction dead?

In Science Fiction the plot is fairly linear, with characters defined and more or less recognizable in patterns. In Cyberpunk, linearity is broken, protagonist-situation relationships are complex and ambiguous.

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

The imminent biological disintegration as a result of the radioactive catastrophe, the need for a 'belief', even if it is illusory (TV cult), the dumbing down of consciousness and ability to choose caused by the mass media.

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Babybot: Awareness and presence

Babybot: Awareness and presence

BabyBot, was born at the robotics laboratories of the University of Genoa and is the spearhead of the ADAPT project funded by the European Commission to explore the technological frontiers of artificial intelligence.

Building soldiers or re-creating the human being

Building soldiers or re-creating the human being?

The term robot was coined by the Czech writer Karel Capek. It first appeared in a novel called 'RUR' (Rossum's Universal Robots, 1920). In Czech, 'robota' means 'work,' with emphasis on the fact that it is involuntary, i.e., forced, dependent work. In Polish, worker is translated as 'robotnik'.