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Scientists Predict the Future

This article in New Scientist http://www.newscientist.com really interested me. There have been many attempts to predict future events using all manner of means including crowd modelling and computer simulations. This is one system that seems to work, at least for financial markets, which is modelled on the very complex physics of atomic systems. I was wondering if the same principles and techniques could be applied to other areas of every day life and perhaps combined with crowd behaviour to...

The Future of Media Distribution.

The future of music and film distribution seems to be in the headlines almost every day. Music consumers and fans are being hit with massive fines for illegal downloading music and sharing it across peer to peer music sites and governments are introducing draconian measures to cut off abusers/users from the Internet, obviously a fate worse than death for many. Just this week a very popular site called Pirate Bay was shut down even though a movement spawned from it and its supporters had won a ...

Do You Wanna Date My Avatar ?

Millions of people every day are flying, visiting night clubs, beaches, shopping malls, getting married, making things, battling with axes, and some even visit space stations, planets, and all manner of exotic places. To many of them it is as real as your every day life and in some ways there are similarities but this is Virtual Reality simulations where you are represented by an Avatar. Your Avatar could be a human looking representation of you, perhaps of a younger and more handsome physic...

Books to Feed Your Mind

As well as reviewing science and science fiction books and films I will be writing several books on these very blog pages over the coming year. You will be able to follow each story chapter by chapter and comment on the scenarios and characters as they unfold. The plots remain solely mine but you are welcome to try to guess the twists and turns and the endings, but I can almost guarantee that no one will "get it" until the final chapters or even the final line. The working titles in the set a...

Mars or Bust

I posted this comment to an article in NewScientist www.newscientist.com . The Article was dealing with NASA's reluctance to go all out for a Mars Direct mission but instead take baby steps to near earth asteroids and perhaps the moon first. My thoughts on this are as follows: It seems more and more likely that another nation or combination of collaborating nations will make it to Mars before NASA. If you set the bar low then that is all you will achieve and you will be lucky to even do ...

Ok Now for Some Science

Awesome video of Hubble ultra Deep Field as seen on youtube. [youtube oAVjF_7ensg] Looking back in time 13 Billion years (all is explained in the video commentary) , is there alien life in this picture? Are they looking at us? Wave.

In the Future all Women Will Look This Good

Click the image for a full size version. In the Future all women will look this good. Until then we will have to make do and enjoy this prototype which was expertly crafted in Wales. Go and see Katherine Jenkins if you get a chance, she sounds as awesome as she looks. Also visit her website http://www.kj.tv which is about to be revamped. If you like her awesome singing go to Amazon (link on the right) and buy her CD's.

Social Media, Curse or Cure?

Its the silly season for journalism so I will not be bogging anything too serious this month. I have spent sometime thinking about the blog and how to make it more interesting and specifically how to get more people to come to the site and comment on the blog posts. I have been using twitter and I see some additional activity when I tweet and mention www.theaxion.com but I am not sure how to get more followers on twitter, after all, I am not famous. Anyway I will continue to look for ways t...

War? What Is It Good For? Nothing…

Four months on from my last post and war has not yet started but many things have happened and I feel confident that a major war will start by the end of the year. Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the world and perhaps there were green shoots of an economic recovery the world has been hit by a pandemic 2009 H1N1 swine flu. This was one of the 20 or so potentially catastrophic world events that we know are overdue and could hit us at any time.  So far however, this pandemic is n...

Re-post from old blog to get this going

Posted by Theaxion Sat, March 28, 2009 17:20:32 Three months on and war has not started but the signs are still there. It's coming. Russia has decided to re-arm its forces with modern weapons and just today announced the commissioning of six new nuclear submarines and will also start patrolling the Arctic regions to protect its interests there. A report from America says that China is spending more and more on arms and its Military build up. Iran has reportedly enough enriched uranium to m...