Kyriakidis Sotiris

Media Journalist

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The Matrix took its name from a 1984 novel written on a manual typewriter by a man who didn't own a computer. 42 years later, that novel finally gets its own screen.

William Gibson typed Neuromancer on a 1927 Hermes portable. He coined "cyberspace" before he'd ever logged onto anything. The book swept the Hugo, the Nebula, and the Philip K. Dick award in the same year, the only novel ever to take all three.

Then Hollywood spent four decades strip-mining it while calling it unfilmable. The Wachowskis lifted the matrix, the jacked-in hackers, the AI pulling strings behind a corporate veil. Every razor-girl assassin in sci-fi traces back to Molly. Johnny Mnemonic, an actual Gibson adaptation, flopped so hard in 1995 that studios treated his work as radioactive for a generation.

At least five directors attached and detached over the years. Chris Cunningham in 2000. Vincenzo Natali in 2010. Tim Miller at Fox in 2017. Each attempt died the same death. By the time the technology existed to film Neuromancer, audiences had watched its ideas in a dozen movies that borrowed them first.

The original became unfilmable because it looked like a copy of its own copies.

Now the timing loops back on itself. A story about a rogue AI maneuvering to escape its corporate constraints, written before the web existed, lands in January 2027 as the least speculative thing on television.

And one detail makes the whole arc perfect. When Neuromancer royalties came in, Gibson bought his first computer, an Apple IIc. Four decades later, Apple is the company putting his book on screen.

[Kyriakidis Sotiris @skyriakidis]

@PlakoudasSpyros Χαχαααα

[Kyriakidis Sotiris @skyriakidis]

@PlakoudasSpyros Εεεεμμμ

[Marty Hogan @marty_hogan]

OK... take my money

[Aviation @xAviation]

Super Constellation engine exhaust flames.
This NEVER gets old.
📹: m171562(Youtube)

[Dawn Aerospace @DawnAerospace]

THIS IS AURORA
✦ Mach 3.7
✦ 100 km altitude
✦ Up to 127 seconds of microgravity
✦ Runway takeoff and landing
✦ Four-hour turnaround

#suborbital #spaceplane #aurora

[IMAX @IMAX]

It's time for you and Odysseus to make your way home to IMAX. Tickets to #TheOdysseyMovie in IMAX are on sale NOW. https://t.co/B6z1mqBRA2 #ShotEntirelyWithIMAXFilmCameras

[Kyriakidis Sotiris @skyriakidis]

@PlakoudasSpyros Τι λες φίλε μου…

[European Space Agency @esa]

✅ #Artemis II update: 'Earthset', 6 April 2026, and 'totality', 7 April, seen from lunar orbit, the Moon eclipses the Sun, a view few humans have ever witnessed (pics: NASA)

🔗https://t.co/ld0YaC0PgO

[Kyriakidis Sotiris @skyriakidis]

@PlakoudasSpyros Σοβαροί επαγγελματίες

[Kyriakidis Sotiris @skyriakidis]

@PlakoudasSpyros Θα χρωστάς

[Kyriakidis Sotiris @skyriakidis]

O Hellas Sat 5 σχεδιάζεται ώστε να διαθέτει την αιχμή των οπτικών τηλεπικοινωνιών και τεχνολογίες Τεχνητής Νοημοσύνης. Με ελληνική, κυπριακή και ευρωπαϊκή υπογραφή https://t.co/BRtVqnBJFo

[Copernicus ECMWF @CopernicusECMWF]

#CopernicusAtmosphere dust aerosol optical depth forecast shows a massive #SaharanDust plume crossing NW Africa, W Mediterranean + parts of Europe through the first week of March.

Read the article ⬇️

[Kyriakidis Sotiris @skyriakidis]

Βραδινές ώρες χθες Δευτέρα 02 Μαρτίου 2026, η Φ/Γ ΚΙΜΩΝ και η Φ/Γ ΨΑΡΑ απέπλευσαν από το Ναύσταθμο Σαλαμίνας για την Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία, στο πλαίσιο ενίσχυσης των προληπτικών μέτρων που λαμβάνονται για την άμυνά της λόγω των εξελίξεων στην ευρύτερη περιοχή.

[Mark Kretschmann @mark_k]

Elon Musk just announced a major strategic pivot for @SpaceX: the company is officially shifting its primary focus to building a "self-growing city" on the Moon.

The logic is centered on speed. While Mars missions are restricted by orbital alignments every 26 months, SpaceX can launch to the Moon every 10 days. This allows for much faster iteration and development.

@elonmusk estimates that a lunar city could be achieved in less than 10 years. In contrast, a similar presence on Mars is now projected to take 20 or more years to establish.

Mars remains on the long-term roadmap with work potentially starting in 5 to 7 years, but the immediate priority is now "securing the future of civilization" via the faster lunar route.

[Hellenic Air Force @HAFspokesperson]

Από 6 έως 8 Φεβρουαρίου, η Πολεμική Αεροπορία προσγειώνεται στην Πάτρα!
✈️Ζήσε από κοντά την εμπειρία της πτήσης με προσομοιωτές F-16 & F-35 και VR
📍 Κτίριο Β1, Νέο Λιμάνι Πάτρας
🕙Παρασκευή & Κυριακή 10:00-16:00
🕒Σάββατο 15:00-21:00

#ΠολεμικήΑεροπορία #HellenicAirForce

[Dr Spyros Plakoudas @PlakoudasSpyros]

H Egnatia Aviation 🇬🇷 υπέγραψε χθες μια στρατηγική συμφωνία με την Boeing 🇺🇸.

Ο διεθνής αεροπορικός γίγαντας επέλεξε την (ιδιωτική) αεροπορική ακαδημία από την Καβάλα για το εκπαιδευτικό πρόγραμμα "Area 100 KSΑ" της νέας γενιάς των πιλότων.

#Ελλάδα
#Εξωστρέφεια

[Hellenic Air Force @HAFspokesperson]

Photos of the Day
#M2K5 #Rafale #ΠολεμικήΑεροπορία #HAF

[BEYOND Centre IAASARS/ NOA @beyond_center]

Space & Earth Observation serve society, not just science.
Dr. Haris Kontoes on how AI and satellite data support disaster monitoring & public safety.
🙏 Thanks to journalist @skyriakidis
Interview: https://t.co/fHGDmI39Ba

[Dr Spyros Plakoudas @PlakoudasSpyros]

Αύριο στις 10:30 ώρα Ελλάδος συζητώ με τον @skyriakidis για τα τεκταινόμενα στην Μέση Ανατολή στο Πρακτορείο FM.

Όσοι πιστοί, προσέλθετε!
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#ιράν
#Επικαιροτητα