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Posts Tagged ‘ Quatermass ’

The Stone Tape

It’s hard for 21st Century whippersnappers to appreciate the impact Nigel Kneale’s 1950s Quatermass serial had on the nation. Back when there was only one channel, and the programmes all went out live, a writer could step out of Alexandria Palace, look out across the TV aerials rigging the dark London skyline and know...
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SF:UK Big Brother Goes Hardcore part I

Episode of SF:UK, a documentary series about British science fiction, featuring Nigel Kneale and The Year of the Sex Olympics.
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Shynola’s Red Men online scrapbook

Human tracking 08/02/2012
"A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen."Winston Churchill […]
From real, to virtual, to real. 04/02/2012
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Anthropomorphism and the social robot 04/02/2012
The use of human-like features for social interaction with people can facilitate our social understanding. It is the explicit designing of anthropomorphic features, such as a head with eyes and a mouth that may facilitate social interaction. This highlights the issue that socialinteraction is fundamentally observer-dependent, and exploring the mechanisms und […]
Looking for patterns. 03/02/2012
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HEAD 03/02/2012
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