<html><head></head><body><div><span data-mailaddress="possiblepaths2050@gmail.com" data-contactname="John Grigg" class="clickable"><span title="possiblepaths2050@gmail.com">John Grigg</span><span class="detail"> <possiblepaths2050@gmail.com></span></span> , 8/5/2015 9:14 AM:<br><blockquote class="mori" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:2px blue solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div>I love the eerie mixing of our world and the machines that will exist in coming decades...<br><div><br></div><div>The robot streetpunk is very disturbing...<br></div><div><br><a href="http://www.simonstalenhag.se/" title="http://www.simonstalenhag.se/" target="_blank">http://www.simonstalenhag.se/</a></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Coming decades? This is Sweden in the 80s!</div><div><br></div><div>Actually, yes. Simon Stålenhag draws scenes that are picture perfect of rural Sweden in the early 1980s... plus robots, dinosaurs and weird science, of course. His book "Ur Varselklotet" ( http://frialigan.se/produkt/ur-varselklotet-simon-stalenhag/ ) contains, besides his images, texts about growing up as a kid in the shadow of the weird technology. It is only of my favourite books. For somebody of my age it is chillingly nostalgic, although I never had to deal with the neutrino outlets from the local accelerator, or had a buddy steal an agricultural telepresence robot. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br>Anders Sandberg, Future of Humanity Institute Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University</body></html>