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The AI Doc Dreams of Making a Better Future While Dreading Its Current Architects
12+ hour, 27+ min ago (380+ words) Exclusive: Ethicist Tristan Harris and filmmaker Daniel Kwan discuss The AI Doc, Silicon Valley's culture, and how technology has "broken its social contract" with society. So Kwan has seen the highs and lows of technological advancement. But through it all,…...
V for Vendetta Director Has Some Advice for Adapting Alan Moore
1+ week, 1+ day ago (603+ words) V for Vendetta Director Has Some Advice for Adapting Alan Moore'Den of Geek It's too early to call James Gunn's new DCU an unqualified success, but things have been going very well so far. Creature Commandos and Peacemaker have been…...
Tech in the Year 2050: What AI Means for Work, Art, and the Environment
1+ week, 5+ day ago (1690+ words) Art becomes experiential. Work belongs to the collective conscious. The environment is non-negotiable. Experts help us predict the future of technology. This article appears in the new issue of'DEN OF GEEK'magazine. You can read all of our magazine stories'here. For…...
Apple Considering Severance Spinoffs to Fill Gaps Between Seasons
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (162+ words) Could spinoffs make Severance even better? However, it's also clear that Erickson and Stiller's interests go far beyond the lives of these four people. What began as a light sci-fi take on corporate work culture, as Mark and his co-workers…...
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die Review: Shock Comedy Makes Fun of AI, Sci-Fi Tropes, and School Shootings
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (223+ words) A defiant Gore Verbinski is full of audacity and originality in this new high-concept sci-fi comedy, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's going to all come together. Every generation comes to believe the world will end in their lifetime. But…...
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’s Captain Wears Glasses and That Matters
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (395+ words) Captain Nahla Ake's spectacles show us everything about her character. In the first scene released from the show, Nahla Ake (Holly Hunter) deals with a sudden threat in classic Star Trek fashion, getting information from her bridge crew. To take…...
James Cameron Explains Difference Between Avatar and AI Actors
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (284+ words) James Cameron loves technology, but he doesn't love AI actors. Of course someone like Cameron would have a nuanced take on special effects as they relate to performances. He got into the film industry after watching Star Wars and particularly…...
The Matrix Co-Director Responds to the Right-Wing Spin on the Film
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (253+ words) Lilly Wachowski says the ideologies that The Matrix helped influence are wrong, but she's had to let go of her work. Lilly Wachowski has been chatting about how she deals with right-wing mouthpieces who misinterpret and misrepresent The Matrix, the…...
Conspiracy Theory Website for Bugonia Calls Back to a Different Time on the Internet
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (497+ words) Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone's Bugonia takes us back to the 1990s with a wonderfully janky promotional website. The trailer for the upcoming Yorgos Lanthimos movie, Bugonia, situates itself firmly in the present, as it features pharma CEO Michelle Fuller (Emma…...
Star Trek: Enterprise Creators Reveal Their Only Regret About the Divisive Finale
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (251+ words) Star Trek: Enterprise co-creators Rick Berman and Brannon Braga have been reflecting on the series finale that divided audiences. Twenty years after Star Trek: Enterprise ended in cancelation, co-creators Rick Berman and Brannon Braga have been looking back on the…...