Science Fiction Robots

The blog with a love/hate relationship with technology

GI Joe Is Going To Suck

Taking a classic franchise from years gone by and turning into something entertaining and relevant for audiences today has proven nearly impossible. Not even George Lucas could do his own work justice in the final three Star Wars movies. So you know that the new live action G.I. Joe film is just going to be [...]

Microsoft Is Writing Apple’s Ad Copy

It seems everyone these days is piling on the criticism of Microsoft and making outlandish claims about The Borg’s imminent demise. I won’t go so far as the headline-trolling Gartner conference and declare Windows to be collapsing, but I will say the news coming out about Redmond’s future product development has to be making Apple [...]

AOL + Yahoo! = WTF?

If you take two turds and mash them together, how likely is it that the result won’t end up resembling something turd-like? Not very it seems, but that’s exactly what Yahoo! and Time Warner are discussing in heated, desperate meetings right this hour.
If news reports are to be believed, the search engine and web portal [...]

Putting Business In Space

The commercialization of space has always been one of the goals of the space program and our science fiction is littered with lunar bases and colonies in orbit, but more than 45 years after Alan Sheppard flew on Freedom 7 into low orbit the space business is still largely the domain of NASA and other [...]