Collaborate Disseminate
Earlier this month, a group of biohackers installed two Rasberry Pis in their legs. While that sounds like the bleeding edge, those computers were already v2 of a project called PegLeg. I was fortunate enough to see both versions in the flesh, so to speak. The first version was scarily …read more
Continue reading Pegleg: Raspberry Pi Implanted Below the Skin (Not Coming to a Store Near You)
‘The Wandering Earth’ offered an important perspective on climate change and capitalism, but the West’s reviews of the movie are distracted by a techno-Orientalist fear of China. Continue reading What Western Media Got Wrong About China’s Blockbuster ‘The Wandering Earth’
In a white concrete cell, a doctor from the DoS sat across a plastic table and questioned Catherine Gabriel as to why she had chosen misery over standard-issue happiness. Continue reading The Department of Suicide
Terraform, 2018. Continue reading The Year in Telling Stories About the Future
A strange trek through a future whose fate depends on whether humans can coexist with intelligent, de-extincted mammoths. Continue reading Mammoth Steps
The tech industry is inspired to create our world from linear, scripted science fiction stories. Continue reading Science Fiction Is Not Social Reality
When it has become so common for movies and television to hyper-sensationalize engineering, and to just plain get things wrong, here’s a breathe of fresh air. There’s a Sci-Fi show out right now that wove 3D printing into the story line in a way that is correct, unforced, and a fitting complement to that fictional world.
With the amount of original content Netflix is pumping out anymore, you may have missed the fact that they’ve recently released a reboot of the classic Lost in Space series from the 1960’s. Sorry LeBlanc fans, this new take on the space traveling Robinson …read more
Researchers from Pennsylvania State University have created a device that uses “acoustic cloaking” technology. Continue reading Scientists Made a Working Invisibility Cloak (But There’s a Catch)
I always said I wanted to be one of the first to die on Mars. Continue reading A Most Elegant Solution
Clever fembots are becoming a more popular scare tactic than indestructible Terminators. Continue reading Westworld’s Female Hosts Signal a Shift In Our Fear of Robots