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...have intelligent nanobots go into our brains through the capillaries and interact directly with our biological neurons.' RAY KURZWEIL, American engineer and futurist, prophesizing at a meeting of scientists in Boston that human-level artificial intelligence will be a reality by 2029 and that nanotechnology will help "make us smarter...
...visitors on a journey through a century of Italian art, design, fashion, cinema and technology to remind them of what global pacesetters Italians have been. Stretched to its conceptual limits, the show's theme of velocity allows for the inclusion of many of Italy's most dazzling products - from Futurist artworks to Pucci dresses and Olivetti typewriters...
...clutch of key Futurist artworks further testifies to that movement's rapturous celebration of the machine age. Typical in its depiction of repetitive, colliding shapes is Giacomo Balla's 1913 monochrome watercolor Automobile + speed + light. Futurism's glorification of man-made power was not politically innocent; it fed directly into the country's rising nationalism, a cause ardently embraced by the poet-pilot Gabriele D'Annunzio. He became the figurehead of the Irredentists, who wanted once-Italian territories returned to their homeland. The show includes such pathos-laden d'Annunzio memorabilia as the tattered logbook he kept when he drove...
...Slow Motion The show's curators have suspended a 1929 Fiat Hydroplane above one room and surrounded it with second-wave Futurist canvases from the same period. Their gravity-defying shapes were intended to celebrate aeronautical motion, but these paintings lack the meticulous artistry that characterized their forerunners. Still, almost 500 years after Leonardo da Vinci conceived the world's first flying machine, this gallery is a shrine to Italy's aircraft industry, which flourished in the 1930s, sustained by Fascism's colonial ambitions...
...Friday to announce he was seeking a long-delayed third term. Surrounded by supporters holding signs for the 2008 campaign, August “Gus” Jaccaci ’60, a longtime impersonator of the third president and a self-described “former educator and futurist,” made the announcement on the day of his 70th birthday. (The real Jefferson, for the record, would turn 264 in April.) Jaccaci’s write-in campaign for the presidency will be grounded in “the abolition of war as a foreign policy...