Star Trek Axanar is fan film that put the fear of competence into CBS and Paramount. They raised about $100,000 and made the short film “Prelude to Axanar”. Axanar raised $638000 through Kickstarter to a 90 minute long movie. However, they were stopped by a lawsuit from Paramount and CBS. The lawsuit judgement only allows …
Lucasfilm announced Tuesday that Weiss and Benioff will write and produce an entire series of new Star Wars films. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. It covers many disruptive technology and trends including …
The Han Solo Star Wars Prequel will be in theaters on May 28, 2018. The movie will star Emilia Clarke, Alden Ehrenreich and Woody Harrelson. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. It covers …
Rotten Tomatoes is recording an audience rating of only 59%. Critics had a rating of 93%. Having seen it, I can understand the conflicted ratings. I said it was good and there are good things about it but I can see how it could be underwhelming or disappointing. However, it would take a spoiler filled …
Star Wars the Last Jedi is definitely worth seeing on the big screen. Positives – The best Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker) performance – Daisy Ridley ..Rey was good – Carrie Fisher (Leia) was good – Adam Driver ..Kylo Ren was mostly good – Porgs were not a problem, the way Ewoks The story had some …
Nextbigfuture was invited to an advanced screening of Star Wars the Last Jedi at Lucasfilm. Here are some shots from around the Lucasfilm campus which is beside the Presidio and has views on to the Golden Gate. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per …
The Star Wars: Episode 8: The Last Jedi will come out this Christmas 2017. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. It covers many disruptive technology and trends including Space, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Medicine, …
Establishing a lunar base is probably a wise first first step to colonizing Mars, and colonizing Mars will be a giant leap forward for humankind to travel to the stars. We begin our discussion by noting that the bare minimum for sustaining life on the Moon exists in the water brought by comets to the …
IBM scientists have developed a new lab-on-a-chip technology that can, for the first time, separate biological particles at the nanoscale and could help enable physicians to detect diseases such as cancer before symptoms appear. As reported today in the journal Nature Nanotechnology*, the IBM team’s results show size-based separation of bioparticles down to 20 nanometers …
Terahertz spectroscopy, which uses the band of electromagnetic radiation between microwaves and infrared light, is a promising security technology because it can extract the spectroscopic “fingerprints” of a wide range of materials, including chemicals used in explosives. But traditional terahertz spectroscopy requires a radiation source that’s heavy and about the size of a large suitcase, …
Billionaire Yuri Milner is spending $100 million on a probe that could travel to Alpha Centauri within a generation—and he’s recruited Mark Zuckerberg and Stephen Hawking to help. Yuri Borisovich is a Russian entrepreneur, venture capitalist and physicist. He founded investment firms Digital Sky Technologies (DST), now called Mail.ru Group and DST Global. Through DST …
