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Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Joss Whedon's Dollhouse

Dollhouse will be about "identity, self-determination" and the fact that "free will is both a blessing and a pain in the ass, " says creator Joss Whedon, who helped revolutionize science fiction with his space western Firefly. Also important strands in the show: Joss' view that Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation "is a great TV character," and the hotness of star Eliza Dushku. Joss spilled tons of details on the Dollhouse pilot, plus the first script review just popped up online. Spoilers, as they say, ahead. More »

2:00 PM on Wed Apr 16 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
5,663 views, 37 comments

Latest by n/a: The book you may be thinking of is Michael Swanwick's Vacuum Flowers. In Swanwick's novel people buy wetware personas that they can imprint themselves with for a limited time. I can't imagine that happening now. Think of the EULAs.@Ghede: more »

retro futurism

Univac Predicts Data Drives Smaller Than Cold Capsules, 1969

"The white ones are the men and the yellow ones are the women" is the tag line on this odd ad for Univac's experiemental photochromatic technology. Odd because it was 1969 and drugs were the new social scourge - at least the ones used by hippies. Diet pills, cold capsules, and tranquilizers - those were respectable drugs for moms, dads, and computer engineers! Below, we offer you a look at Univac's accurate predictions for the future of "photochromatic" data storage. More »

1:33 PM on Thu Apr 10 2008
By Lynn Peril
1,294 views, 8 comments

Latest by inconstant_reader: My uber-geek husband worked at Lawrence Berkeley Labs the summer of 1978, and he saw some similar technology. There was a room filled with obsolete (and bizarre) data-storage devices, one of which contained a rack of little plastic boxes. Each box more »