Krypton Casts a Major Superman Villain
Jason Momoa talks about evolving Aquaman through Justice League and beyond. Jon Bernthal teases Frank’s relationship…
Seth Rogen Is Making a Comedy Series About Ray Kurzweil's Singularity Theory
Futurist Ray Kurzweil has theorized that the technological singularity—the moment when artificial intelligence…
Ray Kurzweil Is Talking Bullshit Again
For decades, Ray Kurzweil has consistently been wrong about the future. But people still listen to him for some reason.…
Company Town Is the Most Twisted Posthuman Novel You've Ever Read
Madeline Ashby took all the conventions of “artificial life form” novels and shredded them with her novel vN and its…
20 Crucial Terms Every 21st Century Futurist Should Know
We live in an era of accelerating change, when scientific and technological advancements are arriving rapidly. As a…
In the Future, Robots Kidnap the President to Win the War
In a future where humans battle robots, an elite military team has to save the President. And retrieving him from the…
The AI Revolution: How Far Away Are Our Robot Overlords?
Imagine taking a time machine back to 1750—a time when the world was in a permanent power outage, long-distance…
An Irreverent Guide To Transhumanism And The Singularity
Futurists R.U. Sirius and Jay Cornell have published a witty, snide, and incredibly informative new book titled, Transce…
One day we will end up living inside computers but it will really suck
Consciousness uploading to a computer network at the time of death. It is a great idea. It will happen. People will be…
Digital Rapture Is Mind-Expanding Science Fiction At Its Finest
Science fiction is the literature of ideas, and therefore of possibility. After all, we human beings live on a small…
Is It Time to Give Up on the Singularity?
Some futurists and science fiction writers predict that we're on the cusp of a world-changing "Technological…
Stephen Hawking Says A.I. Could Be Our 'Worst Mistake In History'
The world's most famous physicist is warning about the risks posed by machine superintelligence, saying that it could…
Brace Yourself: Madeline Ashby Is Writing About The Singularity!
We're shaken up from the weirdness in vN, Madeline Ashby's novel about artificial consciousness and self-replicating…
10 Futurist Phrases And Terms That Are Complete Bullshit
Last month we told you about 20 terms every self-respecting futurist should know, but now it's time to turn our…
The Various Ways to Die Inside a Black Hole
Falling into a black hole never sounded like fun. How could it? Black holes are the darkest places in the universe,…
Stanisaw Lem's Summa Technologiae portrays a grim and sober singularity
Stanislaw Lem's Summa Technologiae was first published in 1964 in Poland. Now, some 50 years later, the publication of…
The Worst Lies You've Been Told About the Singularity
You’ve probably heard of a concept known as the Technological Singularity — a nebulous event that’s supposed to happen…
Johnny Depp gets crazy creepy in the first teaser for Transcendence
UPDATED! Here it is, the very first teaser trailer for Wally Pfister's Transcendence, starring Johnny Depp as the…