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Six Billion Worlds
- National Geographic's 3-minute kinetic typography video on the approach of a planet with 7 billion people, possibly sometime later this year.
It seems the location used to indicate how much space we would take up standing shoulder to shoulder has shifted again - it was once the Isle of Wight, then the Isle of Man, later John Brunner used ( Read more... ) - National Geographic's 3-minute kinetic typography video on the approach of a planet with 7 billion people, possibly sometime later this year.
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Life imitates SF
- Did a classic piece of science fiction predict the WikiLeaks revelations? Tim Martin delves into John Brunner's The Shockwave Rider.
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Life imitates SF: Thus spake John Brunner
" Yatakangi! Victory is certain!" This is an extraordinarily spectacular fall from grace: the ever-deepening saga of an Asian scientist guilty of faking research into human cloning. More and more I find myself half-believing Brunner wrote the future*. And not just in Stand on Zanzibar - the recent Benbella edition of The Sheep Look Up includes an ( Read more... )