Visual Arts Archives - Herbert R. Sim

Bostrom’s Big New AGI Idea – But Who Holds the Kill Switch?

December 2, 2025

My illustration above of Herbert Sim (aka Bitcoin Man), alongside with Vitalik Buterin, interacting with an artificial intelligence (AI) figure in holographic projection, in a futuristic city public space. ...

Digital Nirvana: The Search for Enlightenment in Synthetic Bliss

November 1, 2025

Opinion, Visual Arts

In my illustration, I feature the 'Upload Ritual', where a digital guru guides a female cyborg towards digital transcendence, into digital nirvana, finding enlightenment in synthetic bliss. In the evol...

China’s Battery Breakthrough Could Change Warfare Forever

October 5, 2025

Opinion, Visual Arts

In my illustration above, featuring a high-tech laboratory scene showing engineers examining next-gen battery modules next to military robot prototypes. Battery breakthroughs, more than dazzling AI alg...

“Prepare the Way of the Lord”: A Reflection on the Rapture, the Feast of Trumpets, and the Triumph of the Cross

September 14, 2025

Visual Arts

In my illustration above, I feature seven angels blowing on long silver trumpets above the skyline of Jerusalem (with the temple mount), the graves below shimmer as souls rise upward in light. On this ...

Space Is Fake?! The Wild Theory Billionaires Don’t Want You to Read

September 9, 2025

Opinion, Visual Arts

In my illustration above, I feature Lauren Sanchez and Katy Perry as 'Blue Origin' astronauts, with the film set, camera crew, and Jeff Bezos in the backdrop. Conspiracy theorists who say “space is fak...

Weather Modification Technologies: Science, Policy, and Controversy

August 11, 2025

Opinion, Visual Arts

Above is my illustration of a Cloud Seeding Aircraft in Flight, showcasing a small turboprop aircraft releasing silver-iodide flares beneath a storm cloud. Weather modification has fascinated humanity ...

The New Arms Race: Global Military Investment in Exoskeleton Technology

July 7, 2025

Opinion, Visual Arts

In my illustration above, I showcase an EPIC battle of the future, where soldiers are equipped with exoskeletons. For decades, powered suits have lived mostly in science fiction — Starship Troopers, Ha...

Neural Sharing and the Death of Privacy

June 6, 2025

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration above, featuring 'surveillance dystopia', with a vast AI eye 👁️⃤ composed of circuitry watching over a city of people linked by neural lines. In the last decade, brain-computer interf...