Read more*It’s not a “book,” it’s a new design essay of mine. However, since it’s shareable on VKontakte, it might make some nice Indian-summer reading for Edward Snowden.
http://www.strelka.com/en/press/books/the-epic-struggle-for-the-internet-of-things
Read moreSometimes, when night sets in and the thoughts turn strange I find myself wondering if all the madmen, con-artists, new agers and misfit mystics were right and we — you me and the world — descended into Novelty in a collision with the concrescence at the end of history. Everything we have…
fuckyeahdarkextropian: First they take the South China Sea, then the galaxy… China’s current terraforming activities and proposed designs for cities and vehicles provide an excellent way to expand their territory and power not just within its nearby waters, but also beyond Earth. Creating new land and living in ever more hostile environments, such as beneath the […]
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Read moreZONA by Alex Andreyev
Digital art guru, Saint-Petersburg based illustrator Alex Andreyev created a concept for ZONA TV series (based on the short science fiction novel written by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky), to be released in 2015
This view of the “belly” and part of the “head” of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko indicates several morphologically different regions.
The comet has areas dominated by cliffs, depressions, craters, boulders and even parallel grooves. While some of these areas appear to be quiet, others seem to be shaped by the comet’s activity, in which grains emitted from below the surface fall back to the ground in the nearby area.
Read morespacedotcom: 9/11 Remembered in Space Photos SPOT satellite image of Manhattan, acquired on September 11 at 11:55 AM EST, 3 hours after two planes crashed into the World Trade Center. The colors result from the use of infrared bands to identify the actual fire hot spots (see red spots near the base of the smoke plume). […]
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The Committee to Nuke Elysium 