Geekfoolery

*headline stolen shamelessly from the Philip K. Dick story.

Pleo is toy dinosaur made by a company called Ugobe that is expected to hit store shelves sometime next year. I’m sure if the marketing people had their way, it would be in stores in time for Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, with visions of Cabbage […]

When sit down to watch a movie, we make a deal to suspend our disbelief in things like magic or flying superheroes or love at first sight in order to enjoy the story. If it works, you get 90 minutes of pleasant diversion. Sometimes, though, the whole edifice of a massive plot construct can come […]

Machines taking over the world-the Terminator, the Matrix, Cylons. The idea that humanity may at some point be out-smarted and either enslaved or annihilated by our own machines is not just a handy plot device for some really great movies (and a few bad ones), it’s actually serious question debated by scholars. It’s called The […]