As the visitors to the recent Star Trek-inspired 'Federation Science' exhibition at London's Science Museum mull over the technology within the science fiction series, people around them are walking around, freely talking on communicators the size...
McElroy had accessed 17 computers at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Chicago in June 2002, which contained both classified and non-classified atomic weapons and research data. But he had only used spare storage space on the labs...
Science fiction to become science fact? There are a lot of things which sound like "Star Trek" or science fiction, and some of them will actually happen. So that tells you that certain things which have been roughly science fiction are now going to...
Wearable computers, voice recognition software for the HA's 1,000 traffic officers, and better message signs are all part of this vision. It's a little over six months into her role as the Highways Agency's (HA) first ever information director - or...
Science fiction novelist William Gibson has been exploring the relationship between technology and society ever since he burst on to the literary scene with his cyberpunk classic Neuromancer in 1984. You can see it in corporate futurism as easily...
I can't remember the moment or place when my interest in science fiction was first ignited. Peter Cochrane's Blog: Science friction Does anybody from any government agency understand anything about computers?