Generative Art Project
Exhibiting and promoting the best of the Generative Art movement from across the globe.
Curated by James Pricer and Julia Morton
Austin, TX
PwC recommended that corporations should ask science fiction writers about the future
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
Charles Aweida: Man And His Robot
Oakland based artist Charles Aweida is manipulating the physical through his robotic language to create fine art.
Kathryn Zerbe | Bob Cut
Biggest mass extinction caused by global warming leaving ocean animals gasping for breath
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
Amazon workers hospitalized after warehouse robot releases bear repellent
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
We Asked 105 Experts What Gives Them Hope About the Future
Welcome to the bright side of Motherboard’s two-part poll about the future.
Becky Ferreira | Motherboard
We Asked 105 Experts What Scares and Inspires Them Most About the Future
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 Accelerate Like a ‘Speeding Freight Train’ in 2018
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 Dress Rehearsal for a Crewed Mission to Mars
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
The Official HELLBOY - MIGNOLAVERSE Timeline Revealed
Dark Horse has made an official Mignolaverse timeline to be released next year for the inaugural Hellboy Day.
Chris Arrant | Newsarama
An Oral History of the Warren Ellis Forum
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's humanoid robot is successfully on 5G
Toyota says 5G will pave the way for robots in real-world scenarios, like environmental disasters and health care.
via Mashable
Project Elowan: A plant-robot hybrid
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
What Our Science Fiction Says About Us
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
Even though ‘we are in the darkest timeline,’ N.K. Jemisin still thinks humanity is worth saving
"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 Large Hadron Collider is shutting down for 2 years
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
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrives at asteroid Bennu
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft completed its 1.2 billion-mile journey to arrive at the asteroid Bennu Monday. The spacecraft executed a maneuver that transitioned it from flying toward Bennu to operating around the asteroid.
NASA | via Science Daily
A startup is about to test a ‘gas station in space’ that could one day refuel satellites
Fuel is heavy. And when you launch a satellite into space, the amount of fuel you give it determines how long it can stay operational. That is, unless you can refuel at a space gas station.
via The Download | MIT Technology Review