Blade Runner

The Battle for Blade Runner

Released to mixed reviews in 1982, director Ridley Scott’s neo-noir vision of a not-so-distant future where the line between man and machine has all but disappeared went on to cult status and influenced a generation of filmmakers. On the eve of a sequel no one could have predicted, its creative core—Scott, star Harrison Ford, screenwriter Hampton Fancher, and others—tell the story of the original film’s contentious journey to the screen.

Do Androids Dream of Colossal Women?

On Blade Runner 2049, and why we keep imagining a future where our cities play host to gigantic, nude, nameless women.

Does Silicon Valley dream of Philip K Dick?

[FREE TO READ] His 1960s science-fiction visions are a guide to our age of erratic billionaires, wild space fantasies and glitchy, invasive technology

Forget it, Kinbote, it’s Chinatown: A Blade Runner 2049 reference guide

Forget it, Kinbote, it’s Chinatown: A Blade Runner 2049 reference guide

Annihilation and Ex Machina director Alex Garland on using sci-fi to explore self-destruction

From artificial intelligence to possible alien intervention.

» Mr Roberts Goes to Hollywood, Part 1: A Digital Anvil The Digital Antiquarian

What I’d really like to do is a game where you could travel from planet to planet — and there would be hundreds of planets — with full 3D action. You could go down and explore each planet in detail and interact with all sorts of live-action characters. Plus you could retool your ship with lots of different guns and engines.

007 First Light Hands-On: A Fun James Bond That Plays It Safe

IO Interactive's latest game feels engineered to be a crowd pleasing blockbuster

Shy Girl, AI In Writing, And A New Perniciousness

I wanna talk about Cameron’s The Terminator and Carpenter’s The Thing, but first, let’s get it out of the way — If you know anything at all about me in this Current Era, it …

You don't understand Steve Jobs

Network Games by Danilo Campos

The Practicality of Art in Software

I've been following with great interest this series of articles by John Gruber (and Matt Birchler's related story) about the chasm between iOS and Android apps. I have some thoughts since expanding my app knowledge beyond iOS and iPadOS is one of my goals for 2023. About a month ago, during my holiday break, I

The Art Of Marathon

A look at some of the work that went into one of the coolest-looking video games in recent memory

The Odyssey: Christopher Nolan film starring Matt Damon and Zendaya receives rave reviews

The film, starring Matt Damon and Zendaya, is director Sir Christopher Nolan's first since Oppenheimer.

Libra Season: iPhone Modernism by Travis Diehl

The shock-of-the-new is back in literature, rebooted for screen time – and with it, the question: To what end should writing reflect our networked selves?

Play for On-device AI (beta)  |  Other Play guides  |  Android Developers

Play for On-device AI enables developers to efficiently distribute custom machine learning models via Android App Bundles and Google Play, offering various delivery modes and device targeting capabilities to optimize deployment on Android devices.

The Odyssey (2026) - FILM FREAK CENTRAL

****/****starring Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Charlize Theronscreenplay by Christopher Nolan, based on the epic poem by Homerdirected by Christopher Nolan by Walter Chaw The bookshelf of my childhood includes The Chronicles of Narnia, Edward Ormondroyd’s David and the Phoenix, Ray Bradbury’s short stories, Harry Harrison’s Stainless Steel Rat series, Robert Lynn Asprin’s MythAdventures, a whole lot of Asimov and Ellison, Piers Anthony’s Xanth and “Incarnations of Immortality” series, William Sleator’s House of Stairs, a Chinese manga of Journey to the West, and Bernard Evslin’s The Adventures of Ulysses. I read each of these volumes multiple times and draw…

Silicon Valley has a science fiction problem | Aeon Essays

Tech titans claim the genre inspired them. But all they’ve done is graft their politics onto stories of a better future