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Hugo Gernsback, who started the first science-fiction magazine, Amazing Stories, back in 1926, and without whom we wouldn’t be here today, was interviewed in the July 26, 1963, issue of LIFE magazine—where he modeled his “teleyeglasses” pocket-size portable TV set. He says he came up with the idea in 1936, but didn’t think the world was ready to embrace them until the ‘60s.

10 sci-fi oddities from Google’s new digital time machine | SCI FI Wire

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The cover has a Superman-esque hero on the cross, which is almost what you expect from a comic titled “Supergod” and in the hands of a lesser writer, that’s what you’d get. This, though, is much more serious and thoughtful, narrowing in on the idea that a superhuman wouldn’t think like a regular human, it wouldn’t have the same concerns, it wouldn’t focus on saving cats from tress or stopping bank robberies. It would slaughter millions to solve India’s overpopulation crisis. It would be alien to us, it would be a god in the most sincere and terrifying senses of that concept.

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The object of the game right now is for the players to build the “Darknet,” an alternative network through which a global resistance can operate, and people can begin to piece together why NASA scientists are being rounded up and what the hell happened over the skies in Los Angeles. (via Rushkoff on writing for a new alternate reality game – Boing Boing)

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