I mean, not really, but still! These wonderfully idiosyncratic illustrations, from 1989′s Hello, I’m Robot! by Stanislav Zigunenko, render our robot future in a way that conveys big ideas to children and pure poetry to the rest of us.
Sometimes I write about high-tech weapons. There’s something fascinating about the technological terror that humans have been developing to obliterate each other for centuries, so it’s easy to forget about the real consequences of this mad race. Warning: graphic images.
Wired Magazine has a fascinating article on the doomsday system that was built by the Soviets 25 years ago. It was designed to obliterate the US no matter what happened to the USSR—and it still works today. Shiver.
