A Spaceship for the Sea

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A Chart Comparing the Sizes of Famous Spaceships From Movies, TV Shows and Video Games

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Jodorowsky's Dune (2013)

• Concept art by Chris Foss

Blade Runner Sketch Book (1982)

Voodoo Planet by Andrew North (1959)

Source. Because every pop culture meme deserves its own planet.

Mondo Paleo-Futuroso

• Tomorrow People - The World of The Future
• BLAST OFF! to Yesterday's Future
• America of the Future
• How Soviet Artists Imagined Communist Life in Space
• The groovy socialist world of 1970s Soviet futurism
• “Glory to the Conquerors of the Universe!”: Propaganda Posters from the Soviet Space Race (1958-1963)
• Computopia: Old visions of a high-tech future
• How We’ll Live: Futurists’ 1988 predictions about life in 2013
• Fantastic Sci-Fi Art Shows You a Beautiful, Bewildering Future
• Retrofuturism
• Here’s How People 100 Years Ago Thought We’d Be Living Today
• Twentieth Century Futurism Looks Really Bizarre Now
• 7 Amazing Images Of The Future, From 1947
• Archive Gallery: Diabolical Death Rays from the Pages of Popular Science

There's Plenty of Room at The Bottom - Richard Feynman (1959)

Feynman's Talk.

Technological Singularity!

Links

• Singularity-related research links, from Ray Kurzweil
• Singularity Hub | The Future Is Here Today…Robotics, Genetics, AI, Longevity, The Brain

Essays and Articles

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• Wikipedia
• Are We Overthinking the Perils of Artificial Intelligence?
• Facebook Lays Out Its Roadmap for Creating Internet-Connected Drones
• Robo Brain Project Wants To Turn the Internet into a Robotic Hivemind | Popular Science
• This Machine Can Learn About the World Just by Watching It
• The Rise of the Drone Master: Pop Culture Recasts Obama
• Facebook’s Quest to Build an Artificial Brain Depends on This Guy
• Curiosity And RoboSimian Robot At DARPA
• DARPA's New Biotech Division Wants To Create A Transhuman Future
• Why Robots Won't Rule
• The Next Big Thing You Missed: The Quest to Give Computers the Power of Imagination
• The Machine's Director Takes Us Inside The Worst-Case Scenario For A.I.
• Open Letter to Eveyone Tricked into Fearing AI
• 10 Futurist Phrases And Terms That Are Complete Bullshit

10 Reasons an Artificial Intelligence Wouldn't Turn Evil

The Coming Technological Singularity - Vernor Vinge

Noam Chomsky on Singularity 1 on 1: The Singularity is Science Fiction!

The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil (First Chapter)

Predictions made by Ray Kurzweil - Wikipedia

Singularities and Nightmares: Extremes of Optimism and Pessimism About the Human Future by David Brin

A Critical Discussion of Vinge’s Singularity Concept by Robin Hanson

Is a singularity just around the corner by Robin Hanson

Brief History of Intellectual Discussion of Accelerating Change by John Smart

One Half of a Manifesto by Jaron Lanier—a critique of "cybernetic totalism"

One Half of an Argument—Ray Kurzweil's response to Lanier

A discussion of Kurzweil, Turkel and Lanier by Roger Berkowitz

The Singularity Is Always Near by Kevin Kelly

The Maes-Garreau Point by Kevin Kelly

"The Singularity – A Philosophical Analysis" by David Chalmers

2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal, By Lev Grossman, time.com, Feb. 10, 2011

Is It Time to Give Up on the Singularity?

Reports and Curiosities

• DeepMind Technologies (AI firm purchased by Google).
• Report on The Stanford Singularity Summit 
• An IEEE report on the Singularity. 
• March 2007 Congressional Report on the SingularityAlternate Link

Fiction and Scripts

• The City of the Living Dead by Laurence Manning & Fletcher Pratt (1930)
• The Last Evolution, by John W. Campbell, Jr (1932)
• The Terminator
• Terminator 2
• Terminator 3 
• Matrix

In the News

• Humans Appear Programmed to Obey Robots, Studies Suggest
• What Is DeepMind? The Artificial Intelligence Firm Bought By Google
• Google’s AI Acquisition Blurs Lines Between Futuristic Visions and Business-as-Usual | Singularity Hub
• By Hiring Kurzweil, Google Just Killed the Singularity | MIT Technology Review
• The 'Singularity' is here, but without any emotion
• Does Google Glass Mean The Singularity Is Near?

Logan's Run

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Novel Triology

Fantastic Science-Fiction Art 1926-1954 - Ballantine (1975)

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The Pulp Magazines Project 1896-1946 The Campy Future

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Amazing Stories | Established in 1926

Astounding Stories | Established in 1930

Dynamic Science Stories | Established in 1939

Famous Fantastic Mysteries | Established in 1939

Thrills Incorporated (AUS) | Established in 1950 |

Weird Tales | Established in 1923

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Wonder Stories | Established in 1930

Comic Books and Pulp Publishers

Est. in 1940-52

Mars!

• BBC News - Rover panorama: Begin exploring Mars
• The Big Idea - Making Mars the New Earth - National Geographic Magazine
• The Martian Chrolicles - Ray Bradbury
• The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
• Mars and the Mind of Man: Carl Sagan, Ray Bradbury and Arthur C. Clarke in Conversation, 1971 | Brain Pickings
• Tour the landmarks of Mars in these vintage travel posters
• USGS Scientific Investigations Map 3292: Geologic Map of Mars
• Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

Mars! in the News

• Mars is the next step for humanity -- we must take it
• Canadian team sets sights on Mars landing, needs public help
• The first drilling site on the Red Planet confirmed minerals mapped from Mars orbit
• When Will Humans Live on Mars?
• Why Thousands Of People Are Willing To Die On Mars
• Crops Grow On Fake Moon And Mars Soil
• Look at what two years on Mars did to the Curiosity Rover | The Verge
• DARPA Valkyrie Female Mars-Bound Robot - Business Insider
• These applicants are one step closer to inhabiting the red planet. - Canada's Mars hopefuls
• 3D Photographs of Life on Mars, Taken by Robots
• Nasa says Mars mystery rock that ‘appeared’ from nowhere is ‘like nothing we’ve ever seen before’ - Science - News - The Independent
• New Mars Rover Will Have Lasers, X-Ray Vision, And More
• NASA Mars Curiosity Rover: Two Years and Counting on Red Planet | NASA
• Sane Reasons To Be A Mars Colonizer | Popular Science
• No Mars For Muslims? Mars One Asks Imams To Rescind Fatwa | Popular Science

Misinformation & Gossip

• "Alien Thigh Bone" Found on Mars Is Just a Rock
• Ex-NASA Worker Claims She Saw Humans on Mars in 1979

Kitch and Ephemera

• The Face on Mars - Sci Fi Comic
• Mars Art | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
• Mars Art on Etsy

Mars! TV

Farmscrapers

Source. One of the advantages of living in a city is that the urban environment is in many ways more sustainable than suburbia — mass transit provides easy access to different areas without cars or highways, and dense planning efficiently fits more people into less space. But the quintessential architectural unit of the city, the skyscraper, isn’t always the greenest method of building. Enter “farmscrapers,” a new creation by the France and Belgium-based firm Vincent Callebaut Architects.

“Farmscraper” is the term they invented for a plan of six skyscrapers, deemed “Asian Cairns,” created for Shenzhen province in China. The towering structures are divided into ovular, blob-like sections that look like rocks smoothed by years in running water. Each blob plays host to a miniature forest of trees and grass, along with wind turbines and solar cells. Each farmscraper measures 1,300 feet high and has 111 floors, reports New York Daily News.

The farmscrapers are designed to act as self-contained ecosystems: The water created and collected by the planted farms will be recycled for use within the building. The farms will not necessarily produce food to sustain the community, but they will improve the city’s legendarily bad air quality. Each pebble unit will also contain a mixture of office, residential, and recreational space. By mingling efficient density with green design strategies, Callebaut is developing an architectural solution for China’s booming urban expansion. “In this context of hyper growth and accelerated urbanism, the Asian Cairns project fights for the construction of an urban multifunctional, multicultural and ecological pole,” the firm explained on World Architecture News.

L.A. 2013

As predicted in 1988.

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German Retro-Futurism 1950s-1970s

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Hugh Ferriss and the Metropolis of Tommorow: Images

The Hugh Ferriss Architectural Drawings and Papers Collection.
On Flickr.

Chinese Space Program Posters

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See Also: Visualizing the Future

Spaceport America

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"Spaceport America, the world's first purpose-built commercial spaceport in southern New Mexico, where the Spaceport America Terminal Hangar Facility will serve as the operating hub for Virgin Galactic and is expected to house two WhiteKnightTwos and five SpaceShipTwos, in addition to all of Virgin's astronaut preparation facilities and mission control. Spaceport America has a 10,000-foot (3,000 m) long runway."

The Sea Tree

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Dutch architectural firm Waterstudio has come up with a . . . structure that will apparently allow wildlife to thrive in urban areas.

The Sea Tree is essentially a giant floating park, which can be located in a river close to the bank. It's multiple layers allow various types of wildlife to find suitable habitats, with a large proportion of the structure housed underwater.

According to the Daily Mail, major cities like London or New York could see the introduction of Sea Trees within the next two years. An undisclosed lucrative client is apparently already taking a keen interest.

Retro-Futurism in French Encyclopedias 1945-1975

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