Tag: sci-fi

AI • August 7, 2026

Could Palantir become the Weyland-Yutani of real life and should investors be worried?

Palantir is having another blockbuster year, but the company’s growing influence is also reviving an old science-fiction comparison: is it becoming the closest thing the real world has to Weyland-Yutani, the ruthless corporation from the Alien franchise? While the comparison is obviously fictional, it reflects a broader debate around the company’s expanding role in AI, […]

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Movies & TV • May 10, 2026

Blade Runner Was Right About Everything

Ridley Scott’s noir masterpiece wasn’t just a great sci-fi film. It was a 40-year prophecy about AI, surveillance, megacorporations, and what it means to be human. Table of contents Los Angeles, 2019. Sound familiar? Prophecy #1: AI that passes the Turing test Prophecy #2: The Tyrell Corporation predicted Big Tech perfectly Prophecy #3: Surveillance, identity, […]

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