Geek Power
“It’s funny in a way”, says Bill Gates, relaxing in an armchair in his office. “When I was young, I didn’t know any old people. When we did the microprocessor revolution, there was nobody old, nobody. It’s weird how old this industry has become.” The Microsoft cofounder and I, a couple...
May 1st, 2010 | Science & Technology | Read More
Art of the Steal: On the Trail of World’s Most Ingenious Thief
Gerald Blanchard could hack any bank, swipe any jewel. There was no security system he couldn’t beat.
Illustration: Justin Wood
The plane slowed and leveled out about a mile aboveground. Up ahead, the Viennese castle glowed like a fairy tale palace. When the pilot gave the thumbs-up, Gerald Blanchard...
April 23rd, 2010 | Arts | Read More
Do we live in a Multiverse?
WHEN cosmologist George Ellis turned 70 last year, his friends held
a party to celebrate. There were speeches and drinks and canapés
aplenty to honour the theorist from the University of Cape Town,
South Africa, who is regarded as one of the world’s leading experts
on general relativity. But there...
April 12th, 2010 | Big Ideas | Read More
Can we stop the Cybernetic Revolution?
Introduction
Jaron Lanier, a pioneer in virtual reality, musician, and currently the lead scientist for the National Tele-Immersion Initiative, worries about the future of human culture more than the gadgets. In his “Half a Manifesto” he...
April 12th, 2010 | Science & Technology | Read More
Entangled
Time is not what it seems…
When a drug overdose causes Leoni, a troubled teen from twenty-first-century Los Angeles, to have a near-death experience, her soul is lifted from the modern world and flung into a parallel time 24,000 years in the past. There her fate becomes entangled with that of Ria,...
April 8th, 2010 | Arts | Read More
THE MACHINE STOPS
Anybody who uses the Internet should read E.M. Forster’s The Machine Stops. It is a chilling, short story masterpiece about the role of technology in our lives. Written in 1909, it’s as relevant today as the day it was published. Forster has several prescient notions including instant messages...
March 22nd, 2010 | Arts | Read More
10,000 Hours to Shine
Malcolm Gladwell says that if you want to shine, put in 10,000 hours
The search for success has spawned a motivational industry worth millions of pounds and libraries full of self-improvement books.
From the Times Online by Steven Swinford
It is practice, however, that makes perfect, according to the...
March 19th, 2010 | Big Ideas | Read More
The Future of War
Cyber-war – the way of the future?
Governments are increasingly preparing themselves for an internet-based attack on their essential service infrastructure, say security experts
Jonathan Richards from the Times Online
The prospect of inter-governmental cyber-war was something for which...
March 18th, 2010 | Science & Technology | Read More
Chief exorcist says Devil is in Vatican
The Devil is lurking in the very heart of the Roman Catholic Church, the Vatican’s chief exorcist claimed on Wednesday.
Father Gabriele Amorth said people who are possessed by Satan vomit shards of glass and pieces of iron.
By Nick Squires in Rome from The Telegraph
He added that the assault on...
March 12th, 2010 | Big Ideas | Read More
MUSHROOMS IN WONDERLAND
Was Alice in Wonderland and Victorian fairy art and lore in general inspired by actual experiences with mind-altering fungi?
The first well-documented hallucinogenic mushroom experience in Britain took place in London’s Green Park on 3 October 1799. Like many such experiences before and since,...
March 1st, 2010 | Arts | Read More
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