Category: Amazing

Once Upon a Time in America

In 1883, a wooden railway bridge in Montana stood as a testament to the engineering prowess and determination of the American Westward Expansion era. This bridge was part of the grand effort to connect the vast, rugged landscapes of the western United States by rail, a project that […]

Visionaries who Tried to Warn the World

I feel that the nightmare of Nineteen Eighty-Four is destined to modify into the nightmare of a world having more resemblance to that which I imagined in Brave New World.;  ~ From a letter to George Orwell, dated 21 October 1949. From Letters of Aldous Huxley, ed. Grover Smith; Harper & Row, 1969.

GAZE, CONSIDER, CONTEMPLATE

The 16 tracks in Latin and English, each without exception hauntingly beautiful, not only incorporate ancient plainchants, psalms, and hymns such as Veni Creator Spiritus, Creator Alme Siderum, and In Paradisum but also the hidden dictums of Francis and Clare:

DEATH HAS BEEN POSTPONED

Pearson is one of those cybernetic and artificial intelligence experts involved in a race to cure the last remaining illness we call death. They believe the body is merely a means of transport for the convenience of the brain. Everything you are is in the brain; the rest will soon be renewable.