The video game industry is about to launch an evolved technology of augmented reality, use of holographs and an alteration of the controller so that the player’s whole body becomes the controller. Microsoft, maker of the x-box 360 is preparing a full body gaming experience with total immersion and motion and touch sensors, allowing the […]

 2012, the apocalyptic tome now on screen is, as it would be expected, strong on visuals and sound effects, grossly weak on plot, devoid of characterization and repleat with the worst dialogue ever concocted. I tried mightily to suspend my disbelief but was successful for about 30 minutes out of the nearly three hours of […]

Leonard Cohen’s song THE FUTURE best describes my own view of where the world is heading and the theme of this site.      For four decades, Leonard Cohen has been one of the most important and influential songwriters of our time, a figure whose body of work achieves greater depths of mystery and meaning […]

Scientists are now conceiving of new ways to power space ships that will be powerful enough to take us to the nearest sun, 200 MILLION times the distance of our own sun. In August, New York University Physicist Jia Liu unveiled his concept for the design of a spacecraft powered by dark matter. Dark matter […]

Sanjay Gupta M.D., the super nueorsurgeon and CNN correspondent has penned an interesting book which talks about the line between life and death and how new medical techniques are retrieving those who have died and brought them to life again. New medical advances pose an interesting future in this controversial area. Cold is now used […]

Avatar, the ambitious sci-fi fantasy film by Titanic director James Cameron will test the acceptability of 3-D in a major film come opening day December 16. The film deals with an epic conflict on a far away planet called Pandora where humans and the native species the Na’vi, engage in war over the planet’s resources […]

The financial success of the new release of the Twilight sequel NEW MOON is further evidence of popular interest in science fiction in its many forms. The film is based on the romance novel, one of four by author Stephanie Meyer. It is about the life of Isabella Swan, a teenager who moves to Forks […]

Recombu.com had an interesting article about ten items the mobile phone will make obsolete. Some are obvious: a) Phone booths; b) wrist watches; c)landline phones; d) alarm clocks; e) compact digital cameras; f) handheld game consoles;g) paper; h) mp3 players. What about the not so obvious like Kindles; Blackberries; handheld gps devices; radios; paper calendars […]

Stephen King’s latest work UNDER THE DOME, soon to be a television mini series, is about a Maine Village suddenly sealed off by an invisible force field. The people inside the field are cut off and time is running out, as they have limited resources–a metaphor on our planet, according to the author. The story […]

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has enlisted a group of 40 established science fiction writers to work on developing more creative and advanced ideas to protect the nation from attack. The group is called SIGMA. Homeland security first reached out to sci fi writers in 2007 and since has seen significant results from the […]