Wired’s cover article for their newest issue is now available online for consumption. I always enjoy reading things like these, regardless of how plausible any of these options may be. Because really, the idea is to open yourself up to alternative viewpoints, perspectives, options, etc. Right?

Over at Underwire they compile a list of favorite Sci-fi films from the various staff at Wired’s blog and Wired Magazine. The following list is for everything pre-Star Wars (1977), while tomorrow will summarize their favorites from that point onwards. Loving the unadulterated resurgence of people showing their love for Sci-fi. Much ado no doubt to District 9, because who are we kidding — T4 and Transformers 2 didn’t do S#@*! for the genre. Oh and in case you’re too lazy to click around or suffer from debilitating carpal tunnel… here you go:

-A Trip to the Moon
-The Thing From Another World
-The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T
-Them!
-Invasion of the Body Snatchers
-The Fabulous World of Jules Verne
-The Creation of the Humanoids
-Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
-Fahrenheit 451
-Fantastic Voyage
-2001: A space Odyssey
-Planet of the Apes
-Solaris
-Silent Running
-Soylent Green
-Day of the Dolphin
-Zardoz
-A Boy and His Dog
-Logan’s Run
-Lassie Come Home

Kevil Kelly is the co-founding executive editor of Wired magazine and the former editor of Whole Earth Review. Don’t think you could attain any more geek-cred than that. TED’s ever-updating always-fascinating series of talks continues with this entry where Kelly discusses his investigations into technology trends…

through the lens of biology, drawing upon Richard Dawkins’ evolutionary concept of the selfish gene, to ask what technology wants. Kelly finds that the long-term trends of biological evolution- increased ubiquity, diversity, specialization, complexity, and socialization- are the exact same long-term trends of technological evolution. Thus, Kelly suggests we may consider technology as the seventh kingdom of life, sprouting from the animal kingdom, although technology deviates from biology in that technology does not die out, but rather accelerates evolution, or how we search for ideas. Technology participates in an infinite game that is continuous; it is played to keep playing and rewards evolving evolution as a means to perpetuate the game.

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