a matter of perspective.
Humans watched videos and saw early robots pushed and kicked, and feared a revolt. Robots read the test logs, and applauded early engineers.
ocular art
Stimulating the occipital lobe allowed her patients to see new colors. She became an artist, creating impossible murals she could never see.
Kaleidoscopic Ceilings of Mosques
Note: This theme could be used in a more Islam-centered timeline.
-http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/art/art_1.shtml
corporate religion.
The lead product that helped seal the deal, was their newly developed camel-compressor, what with their CEO's memo telling them Matthew 19:24 telling that Jesus said ‘It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of god'...
Eladio Dieste
In short: Dieste focused heavily on thin-shelled brickwork buildings that were tough and economical, but also with a level of elegance that made them comfortable. These aren't theoretical, and that is the point of the thread, but here are some ideas that could prove interesting.
Exposition Universelle
Note: Nouveau is a style of decorative art, architecture, and design prominent in western Europe and the US from about 1890 until World War I and characterized by intricate linear designs and flowing curves based on natural forms. It was a gut-reaction against the...
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After traveling the solar-system, We never found alien life, but planets and moons were packed with fossil fuels. Dreamers despaired, but society agreed that was good enough.
alt-world literature.
She studied the titles locked in the Library's Do Not Read cage:
"Taxonomy of Earth's Moon"
"Sleep: The Truth and the Lies"
"Cryptophysics"
"Heretical Architecture"
"Franz Schubert, Symphony No. 8, fourth movement"
"Cooking for Statues"
"The World You Remember, and...
Drone
Another shot-down delivery drone on the street.
Not yet plundered? Must've been taken down by a competitor's hunt drone, another price war was in the air.
I grab it and run.