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All three new episodes of the brilliant «Black Mirror» are now available. Here’s the trailer, I’m sure you’ll know how to watch the whole episodes.
How long until your doctor will prescribe you two daily superorgasms with a sexbot?
From Commander-in-Chief to Assasin-in-Chief. What the future of warfare in space and cyberspace looks like.
A wonderful short essay about the little big things technology does to our minds and souls.
Best invention of the year: shoes with integrated LED lights to always guide you home.
Just a friendly reminder: It’s very likely that your digital security settings can be easily improved. And they should.
In its series “Will We Ever?”, the BBC tackles the big questions of science (fiction). Now that Curiosity is exploring Mars, the latest column is an obvious one: Will we ever…find life elsewhere in the universe? It’s a great read.
They can’t wait for cyborg body enhancements to become available. So they build and implant them by themselves. This is a thrilling (in all possible senses) report on «body hackers». They have magnets implanted in their fingertips to feel electrical waves, wear permanently attached computerised glasses and control a robot arm with their own arm across the Atlantic. Their next challenge: Implant an LED-display under the skin of the forearm to display heart rate, body temperature, and blood pressure. What makes this such a compelling read: Here you have the somewhat crazy DIY-wannabe-cyborgs, but then again this is pretty much the direction medical technology, nanotechnology and the likes of Google are leading us to.
Biophysicists at Harvard. «How was your day?» – «Oh, just the ordinary stuff. We took a rat apart and rebuilt it as a jellyfish.»
A brilliant essay on the word «Hacker» and why it is important that there are people who hack things. Written in 2004, it hasn’t lost a bit of its relevance.
Make sense of what’s happening, and imagine what could be.
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