The Sphere Craft and Portals in Sci-Fi

The Death_Star series of spacecraft is one of the most well known Sci-Fi vehicles in history. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076759/mediaviewer/rm2479634944

"Every prominent shot of the Death Star I and II from the Star Wars saga in chronological movie order. Featuring scenes from Revenge of the Sith, Rogue One, A New Hope and Return of the Jedi." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVfzs1x_EAk

https://www.lucasfilm.com/productions/episode-iv

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Star#Origin_and_design , https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/DS-1_Death_Star_Mobile_Battle_Station 

https://www.lucasfilm.com/productions/episode-v

https://www.lucasfilm.com/productions/episode-vi ROTJ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086190/mediaviewer/rm346050560

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Star#Second_Death_Star , 

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/DS-2_Death_Star_II_Mobile_Battle_Station 

The STAR+WARS universe has so many ships and shapes.

The DS vs. the B Cube is an interesting, what if? 

The Borg Cube vs. The Death Star https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnDx8XOOiv0

Star Wars vs Star Trek; Borg Attack The Death Star https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ23DPhymHU

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Borg_sphere

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076759/mediaviewer/rm2322423808 The injection sphere for interrogation. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076759/mediaviewer/rm2113422592

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphere_(novel)#Plot_summary 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5UXOwphsLk , 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIPiOu_2L7k 

Sphere (1998) Alternate Ending https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2eDZzGMMlQ

"Buck Rogers" operating the controls of a remotely piloted "air ball". Amazing Stories (March 1929).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_Rogers#Characters_and_story

The movie CONTACT is a classic sphere and portal movie, because that's a key part of the story.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118884/mediaviewer/rm2217921536 The pod or sphere in Contact.

The machine creates an interdimensional portal to another place and time in the universe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqtmkqzmlBo Contact movie explained.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Contact

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118884/mediaviewer/rm3337757440

https://www.aarondcharles.com/movies/2017/10/17/contact

https://www.thepioneerwoman.com/news-entertainment/a22009/contact/

Everything Wrong With Contact? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7GmyhV_CLc 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=portals 

The Crystal Ball

Since ancient times, some people have described or wrote about the concept of a crystal ball or sphere that could show 3D images. These images could be of things & events at various points in time.

Sphere_(novel) 1987 & Sphere_(film) 1998

http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Crystal_ball Quantum Bloch_sphere Terminology

Long before most humans could ever imagine the science required to develop TV & 3D imaging systems & Quantum computing, there was the concept of the crystal ball & the talking magic mirror.

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/03/moving-beyond-silicon-to-break-the-megahertz-barrier.ars

Eventually inventors & technicians were able to create such things with modern technology.

The Oracle is an ancient concept but it has continued into modern times. The work of John_von_Neumann was an integral part of the ORACLE (computer) project at the Oak_Ridge_National_Laboratory.

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By the mid 1950s, Philip_K._Dick had realized that special future computers & certain precognition people could tap into various timelines. So in a way, even in ancient times, some people had the idea that holograms could be seen in things like crystalballs. An advanced quantum-computer might be able to tap into specific points & places in time & space. http://www.theuniversesolved.com/theuniversesolved/blog/post/2009/05/Non-locality-Explained!.aspx

So whether its a crystal ball (spherical TV) or a talking magic mirror, flat screen TV or tablet PC, its modern technology that's based on ancient ideas in the mind.

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The concept of the Oracle & the_crystal_ball have become a modern Metaphor for future & past events stored in time. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/when-the-crystal-ball-foretells-a-bumpy-ride/article1513523

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wizard_of_Oz_(1939_film)#Home_media , 

http://www.covershut.com/DVD-Covers/10606-The-Wizard-Of-Oz-1939-3-Disc-Disc.html 

But if too many people start to metaphorically perceive the universe as a vast interactive recording, there would be a lot more people questioning reality.

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Sphere

Microsoft and Windows

"Allen worked on a simulator for the Altair while Gates developed the interpreter, and it worked flawlessly when they demonstrated it to MITS in March 1975 in Albuquerque, New Mexico."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft#1972-1985:_Founding  

Paul-Allen really is the Idea_Man of technology...

https://paulallen.com/Futurist/Microsoft.aspx

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/history/history-of-microsoft-1975

The Windows, Microsoft_Logo is a little similar to the 4 corner states on a map.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft#1985-1994:_Windows_and_Office

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7 , 

https://www.cnet.com/pictures/microsoft-logos-through-the-years-pictures ,

https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-unveils-new-logoheres-a-history-of-the-designs-evolution-2012-8

The Four_Corners area have been a special place for government research, like the IBM_Roadrunner & other corporate entities for the past several decades. Officially, the W7 logo doesn't symbolize the four-coners-of-earth. The 4 corners of a Sphere is an old mystical & religious concept. Even today, not that many people think beyond the parameters of their 3-D world. Thus, so many don't fully realize the implications of an Oracle or a Crystal ball. How did people in ancient times get the idea of seeing 3-D & even 4-D images in a sphere? There was no reference to movies & HDTV back then. Yet, somehow the ancient human mind could ponder the concept of seeing visions inside of an imaging sphere. This W7 logo just happens to look like a crystal ball with a fluctuating 4 Quadrant grid.

{Paul Allen was hired into MITS,[27] and Gates took a leave of absence from Harvard to work with Allen at MITS in Albuquerque in November 1975. They named their partnership "Micro-Soft" and had their first office located in Albuquerque.[27] Within a year, the hyphen was dropped, and on November 26, 1976, the trade name "Microsoft" was registered with the Office of the Secretary of the State of New Mexico.[27] Gates never returned to Harvard to complete his studies.} http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates#BASIC - http://wiki.oldos.org ,

http://os-history.de/windows/3x.html , http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?tag=trunk;popular ,

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-365230.html

U2 Sphere in Las Vegas

 https://lasvegasmagazine.com/entertainment/2023/sep/22/u2-sphere-las-vegas-music-residency-bono-edge/

Three decades after the Zoo_TV_Tour, it's time for an update and repackaging of what amazed so many people in the early 1990s.

https://news3lv.com/news/local/sphere-in-las-vegas-releases-general-admission-policy-ahead-of-debut

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_TV_Tour#Conception

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U2:UV_Achtung_Baby_Live_at_Sphere

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U2:UV_Achtung_Baby_Live_at_Sphere#Set_design_and_show_production

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=U2

U2 brings iconic songs to the Sphere Las Vegas

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2023/09/30/sphere-las-vegas-u2-opening-night-review/71008238007/

Just some old U2 music from the 1990s? Not exactly, it's an echo of Achtung Baby and ZOO TV in 2023 when a lot more people have become accustomed to smartphones and tablets, VR and AR...

 https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/sep/30/u2-review-an-utterly-astonishing-admirably-raw-vegas-extravaganza

The ZOO TV tour in the early 1990s was meant for stadium environments of 50K to 100 thousand people. The Sphere is only around 20 thousand at best, so it's more like an Imax arena thing.

https://www.youtube.com/@U2official/videos  

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=ZOO+TV

Las Vegas is Building the World’s Largest Sphere

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydOn8qwLJzA

It seems that every few years LV has something big and new to boast about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSG_Sphere_at_The_Venetian

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cJrlJ5EYOs

Any city that's built upon entertainment and hospitality has to keep offering more exciting things.

MSG Sphere Las Vegas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csJDHDiw5_o , https://www.youtube.com/c/TheMagnitudeofLasVegas/videos

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Sphere

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Las+Vegas

The MSG Sphere Las Vegas

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSqCBJ7FnRY

MSG SPHERE Las Vegas Largest and Newest Attraction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGOZtx9NMlE

The MSG Sphere Las Vegas Will BLOW Your Mind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsLfHQLW-og

U2 Takes Fans Inside the Las Vegas Sphere With Eye-Popping Grammys Performance

 https://variety.com/2024/music/news/u2-grammys-sphere-las-vegas-1235892168/

U2 in LV

 https://www.u2.com/news/title/5-days-to-go/

U2 performing Lemon in their version of the Holodeck MATRIX. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEcx9F_FW2U

What will such songs be like in the Sphere?

https://news3lv.com/news/local/sphere-in-las-vegas-releases-general-admission-policy-ahead-of-debut

https://twitter.com/U2/status/1704895723152564401?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=U2

U2 at the LV Sphere

 Inside U2's Sphere Residency in Las Vegas | Apple Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfUGtUER1yw

Although it's nowhere as big as the ZOO+TV Tour in the early 1990s, its at a whole new level of interactive technology.

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=U2

U2’s Jaw Dropping Show at the MSG Sphere in Las Vegas

 https://theforestscout.com/46125/in-culture/even-better-than-the-real-thing-u2s-jaw-dropping-show-at-the-msg-sphere-in-las-vegas/

Elvis Presley is back, as a hologram, in new Virtual Reality show

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2024/01/04/elvis-evolution-hologram-show/72106121007

Hardy the real thing, but an AI Elvis hologram in a VR show could be quite entertaining.

https://variety.com/2024/theater/global/elvis-london-ai-show-1235861196/

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/jan/04/elvis-evolution-hologram-show-london-premiere

U2 - Even Better Than The Real Thing (Live At The LV Sphere) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OVAvp6G9Yk A tribute not only to ELVIS, but to the entertainment zoo that is Las Vegas throughout the years.

The Earth Sandbox and Cosmic Simulation

 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.HCLab.EarthSandbox&hl=en 

The Digital Earth Sandbox https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY2uhFbxp84 

https://www.perplexity.ai/search/earth-simulations-TX7q_uqVS1G8uT2kB7bqMQ

https://spaceengine.org/ https://spaceengine.org/universe/

GALAXY SpaceEngine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh4ARU9lRZY 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rings_of_Saturn#General_characteristics

https://spaceengine.org/articles/opposition-effect , https://www.science.org/content/article/why-saturns-b-ring-looks-vinyl-record Rings around the worlds. 

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn6639-cassini-discovers-music-of-the-rings/ 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rings_of_Saturn#Physical_structure_of_the_rings 

https://www.quora.com/Why-are-Saturns-rings-in-a-disc-instead-of-a-sphere 

https://www.planetary.org/articles/how-do-planets-get-rings  

Decoding the Universe: Quantum | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t06aTX9jM34

Is Our Universe Inside a Black Hole? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKeCr-MAyH4

The Earth is already in deep space, its just a matter of perspective.

https://spaceengine.org/universe/deep-space 

From Earth to the Most Distant Galaxy Ever Confirmed – Space Engine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFW5Bf8DyEc 

The Real Scale of the Universe: 3D Size Comparison https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiKQp07faSg 

What NASA Saw At the Edge of... Everything https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh1lcn2SPNg 

Are We The Universe’s Way of Knowing Itself? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpWaAESy6RE , https://www.youtube.com/@StarTalk/videos

Will Smith Rewrites History In New Matrix Inspired Music Video Where He Plays Neo

 https://screenrant.com/the-matrix-will-smith-music-video-beautiful-scars/

https://movies.mxdwn.com/news/will-smith-plays-neo-in-matrix-themed-music-video-decades-after-rejecting-the-original-role/

https://deadline.com/2025/01/will-smith-matrix-instagram-1236249483/

Will Smith would have been great, but The_Matrix was perfect for Keanu_Reeves to star as Neo_in_The_Matrix. And so it was in late March 1999 when people first got to see THE MATRIX.

Will Smith would have been great as (AI) Agent Smith as well, but it wasn't meant to be. Hugo in 1999 was prefect. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/mediaviewer/rm3081751297/?ref_=ttmi_mi_10

"I hate this place. This zoo..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYL28a0LM_A

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_TV:_Live_from_Sydney Just in-time for the late 1990s, THE MATRIX was filmed in Sydney, NSW.

One could say that Bono was doing a version of Neo during the Zoo_TV_Tour in the early 1990s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U2:UV_Achtung_Baby_Live_at_Sphere

https://www.thesphere.com/shows/v-u2-immersive-concert-film

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix_Resurrections#Plot Not long after the fourth Matrix movie U2 was in the LV Sphere. 

The Science of the Matrix with Laurence Fishburne on StarTalk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8L9Z2vmMTQ

The Electronic Life and Interaction with TV and Computers, etc.

Videophone#Early_history or the Telephonoscope

The Videophone concept was established long before the electronics could be miniaturized by the early 21st century when Telepresence started to become more commonplace.

Le Vingtième siècle. La vie électrique by Albert_Robida, was published in 1890.

Electronic_Life by MC, was published in August 1983 about a decade before the Internet became public & laptops were still so bulky & limited. By 2013 a fully functioning PC could be part of a cell phone, or the size of a Phone book that can function as full desktop_replacement unit. Sphere was published in 1987. It's a speculation of a temporal quantum computing sphere with ET Ai, that's been captured by a future American spacecraft. Somehow since ancient times, humans have had the concept of seeing & hearing things through certain objects. From the talking magic mirror to the iPad, technology keeps moving ahead & sometimes reaches into the myths of the distant past. 

http://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/2011/10/get-smartphone.html

Digital Transcendence

http://www.transcendencemovie.com, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendence_(2014_film)

People merging into computer programs & machines is both fascinating & horrific.
http://insidemovies.ew.com/2013/12/20/transcendence-trailer, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2209764

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2527133/Johnny-Depp-undergoes-radical-cyber-transformation-tries-immortal-paranoid-teaser-Transcendence.html

In most cases it's not necessary to make robots appear human.
However, this TV series depicts why a disc, cylinder, sphere, & cube robots aren't always the best shape to interact with people.
http://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.ca/2013/11/almost-human-tv-series.html

http://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.ca/2013/12/humans-robotics-and-bionics.html

http://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.ca/2013/11/quantum-physics-proves-there-is-after.html

ZOO TV, The MATRIX of VR and Holographic Data Storage...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/sevenages/events/stadium-rock/zoo-tv-tour , 

https://www.u2.com/zoo_tv_tour/id/54 , http://fusionanomaly.net/matrix.html ,

Earth's location/ in the galaxy-zoo. + http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080210.html

ZOO_TV  DVD  Hybrid_drive

Bono_as_The_Fly_Cleveland_1992. Neo in 1999. Watch more ZOO TV.  http://www.thematrix101.com/matrix , http://fusionanomaly.net/virtualreality.html

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What is reality & how is all this cosmic information stored?
There could be many-worlds & levels within the Cosmos. VR technology has a long way to go until it attains what's depicted in some movies. Of course the universe might actually be a super advanced cosmic VR program. See: Michael_Talbot_(author)#The_Holographic_Universe &
http://www.theuniversesolved.com
Indeed, Jim Elvidge has quite a unique book & web site that provides compelling data about reality.
http://www.theuniversesolved.com/news.htm

Hopefully, many more people will start to ponder the notion of a Cosmic Operating System, figuratively or literally.
Detailed simulations of the Earth, this galaxy & even vast parts of the known universe can be constructed. Its just a matter of how much accurate data can be entered into a Sim program. Obviously, the closer to earth the more accurate such simulations can be.

September 17, 2008 - Films Showing Our Best Visualization of the Ocean's Circulation
http://oceanworld.tamu.edu/ocean410/ocng410_course_schedule.html ,
http://www.top500.org/system/5628 ,
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/06/04/necs-updates-its-supercomputer-earth-simulator-system-breaks-record ,
http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/sci_update.php?DocID=239 ,
http://colossalstorage.net/home.htm ,
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/22/tech-5d-storage-dvd-polarization-colours-3d-swinburne-chon-nature.html

Eventually these simulations could become very realistic & cause many more people to wonder if they are already in simulation created by someone else?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS88G5WBcfQ&feature=related ,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVsHjnY-o9s&feature=related
Indeed, most religions imply that a creator or force has already constructed the universe. Such an immensity of data would have to be organized like cosmic computer programs in the sky. The concept of Akashic_records has been around thousands of years before the development of Virtual Reality & the avatar-machine. Holographic-environments exist in a way & in a way they don't, its a quantum sort of thing.

Ashoka_Chakra ,
http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/history/bud_wheel.htm


In ancient times, it would be difficult for most people to grasp the concept of a crystal ball. 3D images in a sphere or ovals are depicted on this disc of lives from the 1200s. These life experiences are part of the wheel of Karma concept. It could also be seen as an ancient depiction of a cosmic hard drive. Reincarnation#Buddhism & the big interactive recording of space & time.
http://www.harekrsna.com/philosophy/truth/karma.htm ,
http://www.buddhanet.net/wheel2.htm
This ancient wheel is depicting a video-disk. Its full of bubble images of various life experiences.
Douglas Trumbull would later expand on this image bubble concept in the movie, Brainstorm.
The Multiverse Disc Theory is just the modern version of the wheel of time & space concept.

Hard_disk_drive#Capacity_measurements
Today when most people see a hard drive or DVD, they know that sounds & images can be stored on them. Hard_disk_drive#Integrity Single-molecule_magnet#Future_applications ,

http://www.smarthdd.com/en/magnetic_record_technology.htm ,

http://hddscan.com/doc/HDD_from_inside.html ,

http://www.duxcw.com/digest/guides/hd/hd6.htm ,

http://hddscan.com/doc/HDD_Tracks_and_Zones.html ,

http://www.quickercomputer.com/quicker/defrag.html ,

Hybrid_drive Virtual_reality#Timeline ,

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/artem-rubtsov/9/97/19 ,

http://www.librarything.com/tag/virtual%20reality&more=1 ,

http://thefutureofthings.com/site/7895/galaxy-zoo.html ,

http://thefutureofthings.com/news/8295/-darkfield-lasers-let-mice-track-on-glass.html ,

http://thefutureofthings.com/news/9710/western-digital-tv-live-hd-media-player.html ,

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/22/tech-5d-storage-dvd-polarization-colours-3d-swinburne-chon-nature.html

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Metaphor: Suppose a galaxy is essentially like a giant holographic_disc of space-time & other forms of data. There is shape & form that's like a pattern & program, so then what if the universe or cosmos is like a vast hard drive?

Then several of these HDs could be part of a multiverse. The wheel of karma is an ancient concept & eventually VR programs could simulate vast parts of the known universe. What's astounding is that several people since ancient times believe that a creator has started everything in the cosmos. So, if that's the case, then the whole thing is running like an immense & intricate cosmic program. Several scientists already have arrived at this conclusion. They just view nature & the cosmos as a running program without a creator. Whether by chance or created design, the universe is running like a well organized system.

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The oval & the spiral are found throughout nature & space.

Some how since ancient times, humans have associated the shape of the wheel or disc as being connected to transportation & information.

http://www.theuniversesolved.com/theuniversesolved/blog/post/2009/02/First-Evidence-of-the-Multiverse.aspx

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The Roots of the Matrix
http://fusionanomaly.net/cybernetics.html ,
http://www.thematrix101.com/matrix/symbolism.php ,

http://www.thematrix101.com/books , http://www.thematrix101.com/games

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Since ancient times, several people had the idea that the earth & universe are in a created field of consciousness & data. Eventually sophisticated VR life experience worlds will be created.

http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/gadgets/high-tech-gadgets/holographic-environment.htm

So, various ancient writings & legends imply that we are already in some kind of cosmic running program.

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Nanotechnology: Big Things Emerging From The Smallest Components Of Matter
http://thefutureofthings.com/category/technology-2/nano-tech ,
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Nanotechnology 

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http://amal.net/?tag=technology

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Dimensions: The Dimensional Ecology of the Multi-verse by, Alfred Lambremont Webre, JD, MEd

http://exopolitics.blogs.com/exopolitics/2008/10/post.html

(http://www.exopolitics.com)

http://thefutureofthings.com/category/science/physical-science/astronomy-space ,
http://thefutureofthings.com/category/ai-robotics

http://fusionanomaly.net/nodebase.html

Is The Holographic Universe concept just another wild theory?

Are people like lab mice in someone's cosmic game of life and death?

What would VR+technology be like after a century of development? What would VR be like after 1,000 or 100,000 years? It might seem to be Even Better Than The Real Thing. 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=ZOO+TV 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=the+multiverse

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=TNOR

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Quantum+Machine+Learning