"The internet has already started leaking into the real world. Headmap argues that when it gets truly loose the world will be new again."

What great impediment prevented other intelligent life from existing or spreading in our local star neighbourhood? Have we beaten it yet?

Voyager 1 logs yet another milestone in space history August 17 when it crosses an invisible boundary that marks 100 astronomical units (AU) from the Sun -- farther away than any human-made object has ever gone in space.