Morgan Spurlock enters the brave new world of extreme life extension, embarking on a life-prolonging regimen and trying everything from genome hacking, to creating an avatar and uploading his consciousness in preparation for the “Technological Singularity.” Spurlock’s quest to live forever includes visits with radical futurist Ray Kurzweil, Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab, and Cambrian Genomics in San Francisco.
On The BBC’s Horizon program, British science fiction author Arthur Clarke goes fast-forward into the future to look at the how society will evolve. His predictions about the communication age were spot on. Arthur Charles Clarke was a British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, most famous for the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey. He was also a host and commentator in the British television series ‘Mysterious World’. For many years, with Robert A. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, and Arthur C. Clarke were known as the “Big Three” of science fiction.
theprintspace “is a response to the need for a democratisation of top-level digital printing”. With more and more people becoming familiar with Photoshop, and an increasing number of photographers retouching their own work, the ability to access resources which until recently had only been available to a select few becomes increasingly vital.
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Patrick Demarchelier is one of the world’s most coveted fashion photographers. He has created iconic portraits and photographed covers and campaigns for many influential publications and fashion houses. In 2003, he said: “I have no formal qualifications, just the school of life. I learned most by just taking pictures; a lot of pictures. I’ve made plenty of mistakes, but it’s often from your mistakes that you learn most. Being a photographer is like being an athlete. You must practice every day.”
Patrick Demarchelier is a French fashion photographer
…Ok. And I want to suggest to you, that it is not only tiresome when otherwise – intelligent people speak this way, it is morally reprehensible. Ok, this kind of faith, is, is really – is really the perfection of narcissism. “God loves me, dontcha know. He, he cured me of my eczema. He makes me feel so good while singing in church, and, and just when we had given up hope, we found a banker who was willing to reduce my mother’s mortgage.”
Ok. Given all the good-all that this God of yours does not accomplish in the lives of others, given, given the, the misery that’s being imposed on some helpless child at this instant, this kind of faith is obscene…
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