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Alan Kay is a fascinating person. He once said "Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it." and he's certainly done his share of inventing the future. He's also a really quotable guy and he has

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How about a simple photo-editor that’s quick, easy, and doesn’t cost a thousand dollars. Fortunately, there’re tons of web-based photos editors popping up. Most are crap, but some are promising. Check out these free web-based Photoshop alternatives:

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Douglas R. Hofstadter is best-known for his book Gödel, Escher, Bach (GEB for short). In his latest book, I am a Strange Loop, he visits once again many of the themes originally presented in that book.

The interview below was conducted in September 2007

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Bloom filters and Bloom joins for distributed databases.

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In 16 weeks, Craig Davidson, a Canadian novelist, transformed himself into a hard-as-nails hunk by injecting illegal steroids. He loved his new body - but not the hideous side-effects. In this graphic account of being a 'roider', he recounts his hellish j

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A team of scientists from Princeton University has found that one of the most intriguing phenomena in condensed-matter physics -- known as the quantum Hall effect -- can occur in nature in a way that no one has ever before seen.

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AS YOU may have heard, this will be the year. The Large Hadron Collider - the most powerful atom-smasher ever built - will be switched on, and particle physics will hit pay-dirt. Yet if a pair of Russian mathematicians are right, any advances in this area

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Back in 2003 when Madame Tutli-Putli was first being discussed as a concept for an animated short film, one of the most important creative issues was how to bring human emotion and expressiveness to stop-motion puppets. Jason and the Clyde Henry's (Chris

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The technological singularity takes place when the human race succeeds in creating an A.I being more intelligent than any human could ever be.

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Two AI Pioneers. Two Bizarre Suicides. What Really Happened?

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BBC News is reporting that a French company has developed a pollution-free car which runs on compressed air. India's Tata Motors has the car under production and it may be on sale in Europe and India by the end of the year.

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An examination of how the Internet is anticipated or prefigured in the works of James Joyce, J. L. Borges, and Thomas Pynchon.

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Why Building The Geographic Web Is Hard, and Why It's Worth Doing.

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THE Right Brain vs Left Brain test ... do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise?

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A scientist has put forward the bizarre suggestion that there are two dimensions of time, not the one that we are all familiar with, and even proposed a way to test his heretical idea next year.

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Brian Aldiss is one of the world’s leading science-fiction writers. Here he assesses how he and his fellow novelists got it right — and wrong — about space travel

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Physicists are converging on a "theory of everything," probing the 11th dimension, developing computers for the next generation of robots, and speculating about civilizations millions of years ahead of ours, says Dr. Michio Kaku, author of the best-seller

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The return of Philip K. Dick. by Adam Gopnik.

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For most of its history, music theory was the study of musical objects and how composers tend to employ them. Elementary mathematics has always had a place in the subject, relating to tempo (speed), meter (accent patterns), and pitch (frequency), but was

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How do the images on this site look to you? Like romanticised deja vu or more weird trippy dreams? Tokyo-based Kenichiro Mizuno makes his own daydreams come true: by visualising his fantasy worlds with cheap drawing software that he pushes to its limits,

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