The effect of weapons of mass destruction

I'll be comparing the fictional use of weapons in Caesar's Column with the reality of atomic war.

Archive.org (http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=atomic%20bomb) has a lot of great video footage of bombs being tested.

Atomic Archive.com (http://www.atomicarchive.com/index.shtml) has practically everything I ever want and need to know about atomic weapons.

Radiation Effects (http://www.atomicarchive.com/Effects/radeffects.shtml) I want to also compare the injuries of the people in the text to real life.

Technocracy

Check out two parts to a video from Technocracy Inc., an organization which centers around the idea of a social system based on technology and run by scientists. There are a ton of videos in the series, here are the two links:

Part One - http://youtube.com/watch?v=I9ps5vJrIxM
Part Two - http://youtube.com/watch?v=icPOfVeISi8&feature=related

The Technocracy website from Vancouver also gives a great glimpse into what Technocracy stands for. Here is a link to the FAQ page, a good place to start - http://www.technocracyvan.ca/faq.html

Information on the history of technocracy can be found at their main website. Here, I've linked to a page which describes the foundation's history back to 1921.
http://www.technocracy.org/origins-1.htm

A Brave New World and Technocracy

Below is a link for an article published in TIME Magazine on Dec. 26, 1932 about Howard Scott, one of the founders of the Technocracy Movement. It provides a brief summary of the objectives and methods for reform proposed by the Technocrats.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,744852-3,00.html

The following link is for the complete text of JBS Haldane's book Daedalus, or Science and the Future, which influenced Huxley's novel Brave New World. Haldane, a British geneticist and evolutionary biologist, discusses the idea of human-controlled evolution, including directed mutation and ectogenesis, in this text. 

http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/Daedalus.html

The final link is a video of Aldous Huxley discussing A Brave New World and 1984. In the video he explains how totalitarian regimes will be able to subjugate people through non-violent means in the future. 

http://youtube.com/watch?v=S7_YFKyhQMI

Tarzan of the Apes

Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote Tarzan with the sense of his own desire for wilderness and uniqueness. At the time Burroughs noticed the growing congruity among men and he wanted to make a man separate from society which represented all the traits a man should have. This is the film version of Burroughs novel and was considered quite a good film at the time.

http://www.archive.org/details/TarzanoftheApes1918AndyDivx

Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster

This is a excerpt from one of the earliest Superman comics created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. This comic shows how these two young Americans from the mid twentieth century forsee the perfect man and especially their own questions about what that term means.

http://ia341219.us.archive.org/3/items/DraftSupermanWeeklies/Superman.pdf

The First "Perfect" Man

This is a link to an original piece of work written by body builder Sandow who lived during the early twentieth century. He was one of the first body builders of his time and he was idolized for his "perfect body". He is just one example of how man and society have been searching to define the term perfect for decades. He is just one example of this idealization along with men like Houdini, Tarzan, and Superman.

http://www.openlibrary.org/details/sandowgetsphysicl00sanduoft

Alan M. Turing

Considered the most important pioneer in the field of Artificial Intelligence, Turing's 1950 article entitled Computing Machinery and Intelligence from Mind magazine is the first example of a philosophical inquiry into the possibility of designing a machine that could emulate the thinking process of humans. In addition to the article, I'm including a link to a Turing page that contains links to a lot of documents, audio, and video recordings of him and his work on A.I.

http://www.turing.org.uk/