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February 2011
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Highly elastic, solar powered, synthetic skin. →
icarus-liquorice:
“Sensitive enough to detect a landing fly”
For use in robots.
To quote the Tyrell Corporation: “More Human Than Human”
January 2011
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November 2010
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June 2010
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“Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic god. When he puts on all his...”
– Sigmund Freud - Civilization and Its Discontents (via Andart)
May 2010
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January 2010
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December 2009
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November 2009
3 posts
For Gene Therapy, Seeing Signs of a Resurgence -... →
Confirming some of Sterling’s predictions
Coming up next: The super-rich cyborg overclass →
for a more thorough explanation of why the wealthy will not evolve separately in the traditional sense, see Bruce Sterling’s Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next 50 Years
October 2009
9 posts
Drug testing could stop 'academic doping' | Los... →
the LA TImes runs with the sports/cheating talking points analogy
Smart drugs for cognitive enhancement: ethical and... →
a concise summary of the issue
Replacement body parts offer active old age for... →
Generation set to live to 100 will benefit from from £50m bio-technology research project
Technology Review: Seamlessly Melding Man and... →
Tiny implants that connect to nerve cells could make it easier to control prosthetic limbs.
Should Students Be Tested for Brain-Enhancing... →
AFP: Today's babies could live to 22nd century →
Instead of working for a long, intense spell and then retiring, “individuals could combine work, education, leisure and child-rearing in varying amounts at different ages.”
September 2009
4 posts
h+ Magazine Fall 2009 Issue →
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August 2009
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July 2009
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Brain could adapt well to cyborg enhancements →
[B]rain “plasticity” might be involved in regaining control of a transplanted hand or a prosthetic limb when the original has been lost. (via New Scientist)
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June 2009
6 posts
Michael Jackson: Man of Tomorrow →
By attacking Jackson and what he stands for — the effete, the artificial, the ambiguous — we make a certain kind of relatively benign future mapped out for ourselves into a Neverland, something forbidden, discredited, derided. (via Renegade Futurist)
meatspace
wordjournal:
noun • real life or the physical world, as opposed to cyberspace.
Implantable Telescope Helps Restore Vision →
May 2009
6 posts
Brain Gain →
The underground world of “neuroenhancing” drugs.
(via The New Yorker)
Top Ten Life Extension Drugs →
Meet the real-life human cyborgs →
Summary of recent trends in prosthetic enhancement technologies.