Month: September 2014
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What will it take to get us back to the Moon?
Jekan Thanga from ASU’s School of Earth and Space Exploration, explains the science and politics behind Cory Doctorow’s new novella, “The Man Who Sold the Moon.”
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First demonstration on direct laser fabrication of lunar regolith parts.
A technical paper from Rapid Prototyping Journal evaluating the feasibility of fabricating buildings, tools, and parts from lunar and Martian regolith.
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Building a Lunar Base with 3D Printing
The European Space Agency is testing the use of 3D printing for more efficient lunar base construction.
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Mad Scientist Island
It’d be nice to start with a clean slate, without the pressure to make everything make work with existing systems, conform to building codes, or have to make money or sense this year. But I think that such a place, if it existed, would need oversight. – Michael Burnam-Fink
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The Drone Commons
I believe that the most important question we face about the future of the Internet is who will win political and economic control over the networks, platforms, and software upon which we increasingly depend.
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BBC: Fighting Society’s Dystopian Future
Hieroglyph got some great press from BBC News this week. Check out the full article here and the video below: Ed Finn: “A good science fiction story can be very powerful. It can inspire hundreds, thousands, millions of people to rally around something that they want to do.”
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eVolo Skyscraper Competition
eVolo, an architecture and design journal, sponsors the annual Skyscraper Competition, challenging architects, students, engineers, designers, and artists to share their best ideas for the future of skyscrapers. The winning entries advance new technological solutions, engage deeply with sustainability, and present breathtaking imaginative and innovative concepts.
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Silicon Valley’s new field of dreams
Investors associated with dotcom startups are turning their attention to clean technology – but can they revolutionise the sector?
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Reinventing architecture’s relationship with energy
Architect Sean Lally’s work is a synthesis of two intense pressures on society today: humanity’s manipulation of the environment and the bioengineering of the human body. The first is changing the makeup of the physical spaces we occupy and the second, the very bodies that perceive that space. Lally’s designs are experiments that report on…