It’s Happening Now

Thanks to CS scholar for this find… scroll down a ways: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13512_3-10372708-23.html

Here’s an email I received this week from Cordwainer Smith artist Corby Waste, reprinted with his permission: Well, well, well, here’s something REALLY amazing – it seems that the Hubble Space Telescope has taken it’s first picture of a planet orbiting another star. Out of all the stars in the universe it happened to photograph [...]

Yes, he did see the future. Or maybe he imagined it into being… in which case I hope some of the grimmer bits of his stories never come about! Many things which Cordwainer Smith wrote about are happening now– animal cloning, for one. So I have started a category of this blog called “It’s Happening [...]

I got this email last week from Corby Waste, whose Cordwainer Smith art is on the website. They say sometimes the “truth is stranger than fiction”. Not for us Cordwainer Smith fans – we’ve heard it all before!!! Rat-brain robot aids memory study – BBC News