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WHERE ARE THE AMAZON ROBOTS? (Part two) In part one of this series, it was noted that anecdotes about working in Amazon warehouses tended not to mention robots. The essay went on …

WHERE ARE THE AMAZON ROBOTS? I have recently been watching Vlogs posted by YouTubers sharing anecdotes about their experience of working for Amazon. Certain themes cropped up in a…

WHAT VIDEOGAMES TEACH US ABOUT WORK 1.5 A while ago, an article was written for i newspaper by Will Tanner, in which it was reported that a Universal Basic Income experiment was …

EXTROPIA’S CURIOUS SCIENCE: CELESTIAL BED If you dare peek in your email’s spam folder, there’s a fair chance that you’ll find one or two promotions for something that supposedly …

DRIVERLESS CARS ARE ABOUT MORE THAN DRIVERLESS CARS. Ever since DARPA issued a challenge to roboticists to get vehicles to drive themselves across miles of desert terrain and mach…

EXTROPIA’S MAD-TECH: “COMPUTER TERMINAL” Here’s a vision of the future that looks really antiquated now. This guy appears to be operating a computer terminal of some kind. ![B4F3…

THE SIGHTS OF SECOND LIFE Welcome to my occasional series where I report on anything that caught my eye in the online world of Second Life. Well, here’s something that definitely…

EXTROPIA’S RETRO-GAMING: ALTERED BEAST If you had purchased a Sega Megadrive (known as ‘Genesis’ in the US) in 1989, then there’s a fair chance you will have played the game ‘Alte…

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EXTROPIA’S CURIOUS SCIENCE: PERPETUAL MOTION Anyone who has used any kind of machine knows that eventually it runs out of juice. Cars need refuelling, clockwork needs winding, ele…

EXTROPIA’S MAD-TECH: “METAL GIANTS” When the enemy forces are darkening the skies of Blighty’s capital, who you gonna call? No, not the Ghostbusters, but rather colossal metal rob…

EXTROPIA’S RETRO-GAMING: VIXEN ‘Vixen’ was published by Martech and released for the Spectrum and C64 in the late ‘80s. ![D8F18B7A-3B35-4DF0-9824-718499234F79.jpeg](https://cdn.s…

POEM FROM NO MAN’S SKY ![D768AB70-50D9-400F-8D8F-19931D03AE8B.jpeg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmbn4q91EP1UZt1684pvnxki3y6c5aDEcxMR92tFqYRiXK/D768AB70-50D9-400F-8D8F-19931D03A…

ANATOMY OF A FILM SCENE In this article, I thought I would write about a movie scene that particularly impresses me. The one I have in mind is the transformation sequence from ‘An…

EXTROPIA’S CURIOUS SCIENCE: THE BAGHDAD BATTERY When was the battery first invented? Were I to hazard a guess, I would suppose that batteries were invented at some point in the 1…

EXTROPIA’S MAD-TECH: “FALLOUT SHELTER” The image seen in this instalment of ‘mad tech’ is something of a departure from previous episodes. Those have tended to be illustrations of…

EXTROPIA’S RETRO-GAMING: AVP AVP or Aliens Versus Predator was a special game for a couple of reasons. Firstly, it was released for the Atari Jaguar, a supposed 64bit games consol…

NMS: THE NEXT ADVENTURER CHAPTER 29: THE FACTORY Days past and Taebaker set itself up in the weapons research facility. Noma walked in to find it designing various hand-held weap…

EXTROPIA’S CURIOUS SCIENCE: THOUGHTOGRAPHY Fans of ‘The X-Files’ may recall an episode from Season 4 called ‘Unruhe’. In this episode, Mulder and Scully are on the hunt for a kill…

EXTROPIA’S MAD-TECH: GRYOELECTRIC DESTROYER World War I was the first war to see the deployment of the tank. As you can see from this illustration, somebody also thought it would …