The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo:
A Movie Review by John David Ebert
I’m going to assume that anyone who has had any pressing need to see this film or read the book that it is based on has already done so by now, so that I can proceed to discuss the plot in detail without ruining anyone’s jouissance. Read the rest of this entry »
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by John Lobell
[Spoiler alert] First, some personal background. I have for the past few years been consulting on a project called Timeship, a $300 million project devoted to extreme life extension. Put simply, the developers of the project object to death and intend to “cure” it, finding the genetic cause of aging and turning it off. (You can find out more at Timeship.org, and get the book on the project, Timeship: The Architecture of Immortality, on Amazon.) So what was fantasy for Mary Shelley is now becoming reality. Craig Venter has announced the creation of a new life form as he gains the ability to code DNA as facilely as computer programmers code C++. But as in all great science fiction, the core of Splice is not science, but metaphor. Read the rest of this entry »
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