Science Fiction Robots

The blog with a love/hate relationship with technology

I Hope James Bond Is Around To Save Us In 2030

Japan is testing a satellite that can turn solar power into microwaves and beam the energy back to receiving stations on Earth. Read all about the project here at Pink Tentacle.
On the surface that sounds like a great idea: Satellites in geosynchronous orbit beaming down power via microwaves or lasers. It could solve our energy [...]

Forget about the robots, what about the Chinese?

As if we didn’t have enough to worry about these days — war in Iraq, climate change, robot uprisings — now the Chinese are blowing up things in space.
According to reports quoted by Space.com, China last week used a land-based ICBM to blow up a weather satellite in orbit. Jeffrey Lewis of Harvard’s Managing the [...]