Category: Anthology
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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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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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Response to “Covenant”
What I love about Hieroglyph and about the Center for Science and the Imagination is that I totally believe that you can’t have better futures without better dreams. With Hieroglyph, the idea is not that we’re utopians; it’s that we’re thoughtful about how things might go right. And that’s incredibly important.
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Response to “Degrees of Freedom”
As a scholar, the questions that this story raises, if this were a real technology, would be: “What exactly is going on in the software, in the intelligence that sits behind the system? How is it programmed such that we can read the Dorians with such subtlety and guide ourselves to a decision?”
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“The Day It All Ended”: Thoughts of a Technologist
Brad Allenby, President’s Professor of Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering; Lincoln Professor of Engineering and Ethics; Professor of Law, Arizona State University The most immediate response to the nice little piece by Charlie Jane Anders, “The Day It All Ended,” is pleasure at reading an optimistic story. This is more rare than you would think,…
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Response to “Entanglement”
To understand these new complexities, we need a new human consciousness. To understand that our actions have consequences, even though they are disconnected in time and space. This is also what we try to address in our work whenever we have the opportunity.