Word: planetsized
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Whatever animals get the gift of intelligence, it is the player's job to nurture and protect them, guiding their technological development by directing investments in science, medicine, agriculture and the arts. But playing the Almighty, I discover, is complicated -- and dangerous. Skimp on medical research, and your SimEarthlings are...
The $60 million experiment, financed by a group of venture capitalists led by Texas billionaire Edward Bass, has two basic purposes. One is to test ideas for building outposts on other planets, where long stays would be common and resupply impossible. But Biosphere II is more than just the prototype...
VPL's system has been on the market for little more than a year, and its cost (about $225,000) puts it beyond the reach of nearly all consumers. But virtual reality has already attracted a cult following in and around California's Silicon Valley. Enthusiasts are convinced that today...
TOTAL RECALL. Someone has stolen Arnold Schwarzenegger's mind! No great loss: Arnold still has his body, which muscles its way through two planets and a death toll in the hundreds to deliver high-tech, high-octane entertainment. In every sense, the movie is bloody sensational.
Even the plot is complex enough to require Cliffs Notes. It goes like this. Quaid (Schwarzenegger) is a 21st century construction worker: a happily married man occasionally nagged by dreams of Martian landscapes. Except he isn't. He is really Hauser, an agent from Mars Intelligence who has been given...