Elizabeth Taylor in Suddenly, Last Summer (1959, dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz) Photo by Burt Glinn (via)
Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create super- human intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.
— Vernor Vinge
(Source: thedeathofcool, via stereogrammar)
I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process — an integral function of the universe.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
2012. Year of the Dragon.
Illustration by Ulisse Aldrovandi, from his opus magnus Historia serpentum et draconum (1640)
(via scientificillustration)
