Why is it that every time a politician feels themselves sagging in the polls, they invoke some improbable, obviously impossible, pipe dream about the space program? Â This pantomime is almost invariably played out in front of a NASA audience in Cape Canaveral,...
Every time I watch an Apple announcement such as this morning’s, I am reminded of a series of vision videos that Apple produced with Alan Kay in the late ’80s and early ’90s. Apple seems to be steadily and unflinchingly chipping away at every aspect...
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/rocketscience-03zj1.html The End Of US Manned Spaceflight Looms Ever Closer The US manned space program has at best only a few more years of missions left in it, until its cost, complexity and design flaws results in another failure that...
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.01/google_pr.html Issue 11.01 – January 2003 Google vs. Evil The world’s biggest, best-loved search engine owes its success to supreme technology and a simple rule: Don’t be evil. Now the geek icon is finding...
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?&articleID062C10-684A-1DDE- A838809EC588F2D7 November 25, 2002 Top SciTech Gifts 2002 Still haven’t found presents for the science fans on your list? Before you brave the cold and the holiday crowds again, take a look at our...
