Life imitates SF

[peteryoung]

A second company, whose co-founder was a science adviser to Minority Report, is also developing the film's gesture-based computer interface.

PKD Dept.: Could The Man in the High Castle see things coming from a distance?

Planet of the Apes is not far off: chimpanzees in Senegal have been observed making spears to attack other vertebrates, while the language of monkeys in the Ivory Coast is beginning to be understood.

Raj Patel, in a post called Triffids, on how genetically modified crops can result in unkillable superweeds that can destroy heavy machinery.