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9 Retrofuturistic Predictions That Came True
In 2024, it feels as if our society’s technology is propelling forward in an unknown trajectory. Just this week, a person had a computer chip installed in their brain. Commentators and reporters annually try to predict where technology will go, but many fail to get it right year after year. Who gets it right? More…
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Arnold Schwarzenegger and The Terminator Franchise: He Won’t Be Back
Few franchises have had as many chances to reboot as The Terminator. In the decades following the hugely successful first two films, four theatrical attempts have been made, each roughly six years apart, to make good on the franchise’s most iconic line: “I’ll be back.” (There was also an excellent TV show in there.) However,…
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10 Times Sci-Fi Classics Predicted the Future Totally Wrong
As a genre, science fiction has long provided a way for audiences to imagine the future and their places in it. A lot of the best sci-fi films of prior decades pictured what life would be like in the years to come. Such movies asked: What would America and the world look like in the…
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Robot Company Will Pay $276k for Your Face — If It’s Friendly Enough
The company that reduced peak Arnold Schwarzenegger to a ghastly golem and brought us the friendly but dimwitted Times Square diarrhoea probe is offering $US200,000 (A$276,778) for your face. Forever. Plus, your voice for free. Ominously, according to the site, a robot version of the winning face should “start its activities” in 2023.