Best dialog of the episode:

You beat me to it! I didn't see that on VanderMeer's page, which I was pretty surprised by... great book, and built with a structure that I've never seen anywhere else in science fiction.

I don't know... wouldn't that create a time-travel paradox that could potentially swallow the universe??

Yeah, but, hey man, what IS reality?

I hate to say it, but streaming my own music has next to no appeal for me. When I'm listening on the road or anywhere I'm likely to be using my iPhone as the device of choice, I'd much rather be streaming internet radio, or services like Pandora or Jango... I pick the kind of music I'm in the mood for, and they just…

It seems not unlikely that on an apparently technology-free planet, creatures have not evolved to understand guns and explosives... like the way deer don't know to stay out of the road because they're not evolved to understand the likelihood of a chunk of metal and glass careening around a corner at 80mph. Fire, on…

I worked at Prodigy from its inception (as Trintex) until around 1992. I remember when the Internet became available to the public in text-only form, learning enough Unix to get around... and then downloading Mosaic and seeing the web for the first time. I invited a bunch of my friends over to see how cool it was to…

Not really... I think she meant Deckard is a "program run by the corporation" metaphorically; see the last line "when he begins to question his job, he becomes as human as a Replicant". If he was a Replicant all along, how could that be? Unless she's saying there are more than one kind of artificial human in the…

Lots of your points are valid, based on what you want from your device (which may or may not be what the masses want from their devices).

I love this movie, and I'm really pleased to see it still inspires this depth of discussion. I am a little surprised that in the "10 Ways" Annalee didn't even mention the fairly common theory that Deckard is a replicant himself. It's a theory that I resisted for a long time, but finally decided I agree with, and I…

#correction:

@Pookasydi: I'd define the best sci-fi film as the one you never get tired of watching, that provides the best ride, that sticks with you...

Excellent article, but it did miss out on another major thread; a number of archaeologists, probably most notably Dennis Stanford of the Smithsonian, believe there's evidence the first Europeans in North America were Solutreans from the area currently between France and Spain, based on the fact that they shared the…

I'm finding the finale pretty depressing, if predictable. The Star Wars movies were lots of fun and looked really cool for their time, but in terms of characters, plot, and the kind of thinking that makes real science fiction interesting, about as deep as piss on concrete. The only movie left in the tournament that…

I'm pretty sure he's at the root of all that is crap about movies today.

I'm down with that. I loved Firefly, and Serenity carried the torch extremely well... but T1 was a landmark film that really changed scifi filmmaking.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, but rather than have 50 million users go through the extra clicks of opening new tabs, wouldn't it be more efficient to have one designer make a slide show everyone can enjoy with one click?

So does Kim Stanley Robinson get royalties for coming up with this idea in his (excellent) Red/Green/Blue Mars trilogy of novels in 1992?

There's a great (imho) book by Nicholson Baker called The Fermata on a similar theme (stopping time for sexual reasons) that's currently being adapted for the screen by Neil Gaiman. Could be interesting!