Dark Moon Technologies

Machine dreams.(The Straggler)(Singularitarianism and human nature)(Essay)
National Review; 12/21/2009; 1747 words; ...believe that galloping progress in computer technology and brain science will, quite soon...without a doom scenario? There were other dark speculations, not all serious. In a...century techno-dreams--fusion power, moon bases--seriously under-delivered...

Avatar.(Life)
Sunday Tribune (South Africa); 12/13/2009; 1214 words; ...marketed on the back of its technology, he is a curiously...moot point whether 3D technology is ready as a format...picture Fly Me to the Moon. "If anybody can do...can, but to me the technology is not ready for that...box office in D. The Dark Knight was a huge money...

Has Hollywood's scariest man blown [pounds sterling]200 million on the biggest flop ever? He's a screaming, five-times-wed ego-maniac who nearly killed Kate Winslet and threatens to sack stars for taking loo breaks. But now the director of Titanic and Aliens may have finally lost the plot.(Features)
The Daily Mail (London, England); 12/12/2009; 2427 words; ...those years were spent just creating the technology to make the film possible. Along the...artist). Its world, the extraterrestrial moon Pandora, is peopled entirely from his...Hollywood. Even his friends recognise his dark side -- an alter ego they have nicknamed...

Has Hollywood's scariest man blown [euro]200 million on the biggest flop ever? He's a screaming, five-times-wed ego-maniac who nearly killed Kate Winslet and threatens to sack stars for taking loo breaks. But now the director of Titanic and Aliens may have finally lost the plot.(News)
The Daily Mail (London, England); 12/12/2009; 2420 words; ...those years were spent just creating the technology to make the film possible. Along the...artist). Its world, the extraterrestrial moon Pandora, is peopled entirely from his...Hollywood. Even his friends recognise his dark side - an alter ego they have nicknamed...

AP review: Effects wow but story limps in `Avatar'
AP Online; 12/11/2009; 1605 words; ...place in the year 2154 on the faraway moon of Pandora, where, befitting its mythological...with fascination at the glow-in-the-dark plant life, the six-legged horses and...for the oppressed fighting against the technology and might of Western Civilization. Sully...