Let’s put aside these murky plans to orbit the moon in a can for no good reason. Let’s build a base on the moon where not only Americans can take small steps in the peaceful pursuit of knowledge, but also where the world can take giant leaps toward opening of a new frontier.

Robert Zubrin and Homer Hickam | The Washington Post

Collectively, the relics of the Anthropocene, also known as “technofossils”, will telegraph a story to the distant future.

Maddie Stone | Earther

Exhibiting and promoting the best of the Generative Art movement from across the globe.

Curated by James Pricer and Julia Morton

Austin, TX

In 2017, PwC published "Using science fiction to explore business innovation," a guide for corporations that wanted to work with sf writers to think about the future of their businesses.

Cory Doctorow | Boing Boing

Oakland based artist Charles Aweida is manipulating the physical through his robotic language to create fine art.

Kathryn Zerbe | Bob Cut

New research shows that the Permian mass extinction in the oceans was caused by global warming that left animals unable to breathe. As temperatures rose and the metabolism of marine animals sped up, the warmer waters could not hold enough oxygen for them to survive.

University of Washington | via Phys.org

An Amazon robot tore open a can of bear repellant at the company's New Jersey warehouse on Wednesday, hospitalizing 24 workers.

Saqib Shah | Engadget

Welcome to the bright side of Motherboard’s two-part poll about the future.

Becky Ferreira | Motherboard

Climate change, extremism, and artificial intelligence were among the top fears, and young people, technology, and equality were among the top hopes.

Becky Ferreira | Motherboard

Greenhouse gas emissions worldwide are growing at an accelerating pace this year, researchers said Wednesday, putting the world on track to face some of the most severe consequences of global warming sooner than expected.

Kendra Pierre-Louis | The New York Times

A photo series from the Mars analog in southern Oman staged by the Austrian Space Forum (OeWF). For the three-week mission this past February, a team of six analog astronauts and nine support crew traveled to the desert of the country's Dhofar region.

Photography by Florian Voggeneder

Kelsey Lannin | Wired

Dark Horse has made an official Mignolaverse timeline to be released next year for the inaugural Hellboy Day.

Chris Arrant | Newsarama

The Warren Ellis Forum wasn't just an online tool for comic creators to banter and barb; it was a breeding ground for the voices that would define the medium in the years to come. In this oral history from Joshua Rivera, a host of the forum's most activist participants discuss how one man and his website catalyzed a new era of sequential art.

Joshua Rivera | Image Comics

Toyota says 5G will pave the way for robots in real-world scenarios, like environmental disasters and health care.

via Mashable

Elowan is a cybernetic lifeform, a plant in direct dialogue with a machine. Using its own internal electrical signals, the plant is interfaced with a robotic extension that drives it toward light.

MIT Media Lab

Different visions of the future are springing up around the globe. Tom Cassauwers explores what these movements reveal about the places in which they appear – including China, Russia and Africa – and how imagining alternative realities can be subversive.

Tom Cassauwers | BBC Culture

"At the end of the day I’m really just trying to tell a story that is entertaining. It’s just that what is entertaining these days is some dark [stuff]. I was not expecting [“The Stone Sky”] to do as well as it did, partly because we are in the darkest timeline."

An interview with N.K. Jemisin.

Everdeen Mason | The Washington Post

The world’s most powerful particle accelerator has gone quiet. Particles took their last spin around the Large Hadron Collider on December 3 before scientists shut the machine down for two years of upgrades.

Emily Conover | Science News