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“When Death met the philosopher, the philosopher said, rather excitedly: "At this point, you realise, I'm both dead and not dead."”

What if you could file-share someone's consciousness? Would it be a violation, or the ultimate communication therapy? A short story by Cory Doctorow.

★ Do they exhibit sociopathic behavior around other humans, especially defenseless children? ★ Are they unusually adept, almost empathic, with machines? ★ Does their spine glow red when they get... excited?

“I am Google! I find many good things. I find that pair of underwear with the little dice printed all over them. And I watch the tape of you with the life-sized Stallman puppet. These are good unique things. Many more...

“a cheap closed AB-Dome which protects the densely populated cities from nuclear, chemical, biological weapon (bombs) delivered by warheads, strategic missiles, rockets, and various incarnations of aviation technology. The offered AB-Dome is also very useful in peacetime because it shields more...

A motion picture adaptation is currently being shot in Russia

“I couldn't believe the attention to detail that was being brought to his craft. It was just mind-numbing. During that tour he said something that I hope comes true. He said, 'I really think we're making the Blade Runner of more...

“The basic notion of an intra-universe wormhole is that it is a compact region of spacetime whose boundary is topologically trivial but whose interior is not simply connected.”

From Fake Steve: "Obtain a clue, people. You're sitting there fighting over residuals and terms of this and that when what you should be doing is leaving the system altogether and helping to build the next one. But you can't more...

Make a real-time strategy game too complex and you might as well ask a magician to juggle hankies in a hurricane. Sins of a Solar Empire, which calls itself an "RT4X" game—real-time "eXplore, eXpand, eXploit and eXterminate," the latter a more...

"They're made out of meat." "Meat?" "Meat. They're made out of meat." "Meat?" "There's no doubt about it. We picked up several from different parts of the planet, took them aboard our recon vessels, and probed them all the way more...

A rundown of the best Hugo Award-winning science fiction books (that I've read).

Say you want to set a story 30 years out, and as part of your world-building exercise you want to work out what technologies will be in widespread use by the time of the story. Back in 1900 to 1950 more...

WHAT IF GOOGLE WERE EVIL? Cory Doctorow imagines the worst