Bionic & Biological: The Ferocious Conundrum of Being 50/50 (FOUR-YEAR FAR FAR FLASHBACKY)

Mar 192016
 
Bionic & Biological: The Ferocious Conundrum of Being 50/50 (FOUR-YEAR FAR FAR FLASHBACKY)

There are million different angles to discuss here, but by far the most interesting idea is a gradual, mutual, acquisitional merger – the pending-yet-not-far-off arrival of homeostasis between biological and mechanical life.

 March 19, 2016  Posted by at 6:21 PM Aging Society, AI, Artificial Intelligence, Bioengineering, Bionic, Cybernetics, Existential Quandary Stuff, Future Already Very Pending, Here First or Best Here, Human Augmentation, Medical Technology, Prosthetics, Technology, Technology & Culture, Technology & Disability, Technology & Healthcare, The Beginning is Near, Transhuman, Transhumanism, Transhumanism Test Pilots, We're Already Cyborgs Already

TERMINAL ANANCHRONISM: Decomposing UNIVAC 120 Computer Found in Tokyo

Mar 212015
 
TERMINAL ANANCHRONISM: Decomposing UNIVAC 120 Computer Found in Tokyo

Sometimes you’re on a corporate-sponsored press tour to get up-close and personal with the history of calculators and then you casually walk into the next room and BOOM! …suddenly you’re surrounded by the taxidermied carcasses of our technological ancestry.

 March 21, 2015  Posted by at 11:15 PM AkihabaraNews.com, Here First or Best Here, Japan 日本 Tekk, Japan「日本」, Multimedia, Pure Science, Technology, Terminal Anachronism, Transhuman, Transhumanism

Buckyball Life Extension with a Side of Namesake

Apr 202012
 
Buckyball Life Extension with a Side of Namesake

Of course I’ve got no idea how that works, but I guess there’s something particularly badass about dissolving the magical C60, otherwise any old carbon sprinkled on my sandwich would make me live forever, right?

 April 20, 2012  Posted by at 8:14 PM Aging Society, Audio Posts, Buckminster Fuller, Future Already Very Pending, Here First or Best Here, Human Augmentation, Pure Science, Technology, Technology & Disability, Transhuman, Transhumanism

TRANSHUMANISM TEST PILOTS: Pre-Exoskeleton Mobility is Still Very Awesome

Apr 092012
 
TRANSHUMANISM TEST PILOTS: Pre-Exoskeleton Mobility is Still Very Awesome

The goddamn wheelchair has gone essentially unimproved upon for more than 100 years. But now, AMS Mekatronik, surprisingly not a Kraftwerk tribute band, has dropped the Tek RMD. Wheelchairs are running scared. I mean rolling scared.

 April 9, 2012  Posted by at 9:37 PM Aging Society, Bionic, Cybernetics, Exoskeleton, Here First or Best Here, Human Augmentation, Medical Robots, Medical Technology, Multimedia, Prosthetics, Technology, Technology & Disability, Technology & Work, Terminal Anachronism, Transhuman, Transhumanism, Transhumanism Test Pilots

BBC’s Bionic Bodies Series Continues (UPDATED)

Mar 132012
 
BBC’s Bionic Bodies Series Continues (UPDATED)

The BBC is assembling a very respectable compendium on the past, current, and possible future states of bionics, or cybernetics, or human augmentation, or just, you know, the modular nature of future human bodies.

 March 13, 2012  Posted by at 10:39 AM Bionic, Cybernetics, Exoskeleton, Future Already Very Pending, Human Augmentation, Medical Robots, Medical Technology, Multimedia, Prosthetics, Technology, Technology & Disability, Transhuman, Transhumanism, Transhumanism Test Pilots, We're Already Cyborgs Already
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