Any sufficiently advanced virtual reality is indistinguishable from actual reality.
10th Annual Gettysburg Remembrance Illumination
Some friends of ours went to Gettysburg last weekend for some much needed quality time, relaxation and checking out the sites. We live a short (1.5-2 hour) drive from Gettysburg, and decided a visit sounded apropos, given the November 19 anniversary of the Gettysburg Address and the release of “Lincoln” in theaters across of the nation. After a short dive into the Series of Tubes, we learned we could easily fill our Saturday afternoon and evening without too much expense beyond gas so on we went…
Danger 5 Trailer
Australian partnership Alrugo quickly established a cult following immediately after their release of Italian Spiderman in 2007. Director Dario Russo and David Ashby have since formed Dinosaur and released a show…
NASA and Star Wars at SpaceUp Houston
I’ve experienced few things as cool as when these pictures were taken.
The 501st Legion, a worldwide Star Wars costuming group, showed up to SpaceUp Houston and climbed on NASA’s Space Exploration Vehicle. I was amazed at the audience reaction, they commented on the similarities between NASA and Star Wars spacesuits and couldn’t stop talking about “what if” scenarios. Our relationship with space is often one with science fiction and film. In Houston, for a moment, fiction became reality and the possibilities became endless.
NASA Releases their Open Government Plan Version 2.0
The team stateoftrey and I work on helped develop graphics and messaging for the updated NASA Open Government Plan. The Open Government Plan was created by the agency to meet a…
Scale of the Universe
I saw this once before. Blew my mind then. They’ve since updated it. I’m still in awe.
Posted by Matt Scott
How the “Mother of All Demos” Changed our Lives
I recently learned about a computer demonstration dubbed “The Mother of All Demos” given 40 years ago by Douglas Engelbart at the Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco. Douglas showed off the NLS computer to a crowd of 1000 computer pros. The demo of this system given on December 9, 1968 is now considered one of the most important in modern computing history.