Crichton's Closet of Tech Horrors
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As Michael Crichton advises the president on global warming, it's a good time to review his technophobic Hollywood legacy, from Coma to Westworld. By Jason Silverman.
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A computer program known as Brutus.1 is generating brief outbursts of fiction that are probably superior to what many humans could turn out.
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Historical inventions like the compass and the Leyden jar join mythical gadgets like the Ark of the Covenant -- rumored to be a sort of early battery -- and outright hoaxes like the Mechanical Turk in this eclectic list of ancient innovation.
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The latest work by million-selling novelist Michael Crichton is a futuristic thriller set in the present. "Next," to be released Nov. 28 by HarperCollins, has an announced first printing of 2 million and a storyline the publisher bills as "fast, furious and out of control."
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A revisionist miniseries tells the other side of Star Trek stories. In Table of Malcontents.
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If you were spooked by the vision of technology and institutional hubris gone amok in Minority Report, pull the covers over your head now.
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This is where computers go to die a green death.
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Tim Kring reveals major plot points of the sci-fi series' upcoming shows. In Table of Malcontents.
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Sci-fi like Michael Crichton's "Next" brings up the most important ethical conversations we're not having
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Cannibalistic Cabbage Patch Kids vie with the Atomic Energy Lab for Kids containing real U-238 and BB-firing belt buckles for the worst toys sold to gullible mommies and daddies looking for something different for junior. In Table of Malcontents.
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Why your beloved gadgets die so young. By Kris Wagner from Wired Test.
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Michael CrichtonÂs new un-put-downable thriller is based on real-life genetic, legal and ethical aberrations.
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Michael Crichton, whose new novel suggests there is no such thing as global warming, said in an interview that we have become a nation of worrywarts.
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Rated less fun than scooping up whale poo Summer's here, and 'tis the season to be compiling lists. One of the most eagerly awaited is the Ten Worst Jobs in Science, issued by Popular Science magazine. This year the roster of horrible occupations has gained widespread attention because it includes "Microsoft Security Grunt".â¦
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How spyware, a program that creeps onto a computerÂs hard drive unannounced, is wrecking the Internet.
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It reads like a VIP list of failures -- Hewlett-Packard, Toshiba, Intel, and Philips. Each of these technology powerhouses tried to conquer a promising technology for
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Cambridge Display Technology gets off to a bad start.