Saturday, September 12, 2020

Perfect QC Imperfect People

Devs is virtually a one woman show - distraught by the inexplicable apparent self immolation of her boyfriend, Lily Chan (Sonoya Mizuno) reaches Devs - the top secret Quantum Computing (QC)-driven past/ future visualiser.. the brainchild of reclusive billionaire Forest (Nick Offerman) and his tool to resurrect Amaya.. His lost daughter and the name of his company. Lily does not know it yet but only she has the ability to alter the course of the future itself

15/20

Robot Times

Love Death and Robots is an unusual collection of 18 largely high quality stories that involve robots or deep tech in some manner. Some of the storiew are quite outstanding.- Zima Blue (E14) is quite a watch.. Therr are others that involve uploading consciousness to giant fighting robots, lost in space into a simulation, a Gravity-esque return to base while losing a limb, and many more. The quality of stories is high, several are thought provoking, and at a sharp 15 mins each this is undeniably a watch

16.5/20

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