Posts tagged: sci-fi

Batteries of seaweed

Imag­ine an e–book con­sist­ing only of a paper bat­tery with elec­tronic ink and cir­cuits printed directly on the bat­tery. Sounds inter­est­ing? This may become real­ity with a newly invented bat­tery. Read on. Algal–blooms have been a major prob­lem in the Baltic sea over the last decade or so. Causes are attrib­uted to be global warm­ing, excess […]

Wednesday March 24th, 2010 in , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Wonderful, terrible future?

I was scan­ning the archives of New Sci­en­tist when I found this arti­cle by sci–fi writer Geoff Ryman with the irre­sistible name “2109: The Realiy?” Ever since I was a kid read­ing Jules Verne, I’ve been fas­ci­nated by visions of the future where tech­nol­ogy has reshaped the soci­ety as we know it. The future will be […]

Monday March 1st, 2010 in , , , | No Comments »