Scientists in Canada have invented a device they claim can print large patches of living tissue. In an article which appears this month in the journal Advanced Materials, Axel Guenther of the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, and Milica Radisic of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry at the University of Toronto […]
Visualise the moment of holiness, the immaculate conception. Undoubtedly you tremble with excitement. Joyously I beheld our Transhuman predestination. It was a divine revelation of great wonderment finally happening. Ah the majesty. My mind continues to be awestruck therefore the precise date escapes me but I seem to remember it was sometime around the end […]
The origins of the term “New Edge†may be under contestation. I recall John Perry Barlow claiming the coinage and I’m sure Mondo Publisher Queen Mu has claimed it as well.  I think maybe Morgan Russell has also claimed it.  I have a fairly strong impression that its first usage was in Mondo […]
In the first episode of Acceler8or TV, we went to the Yerba Buena Art District in downtown San Francisco for about an hour on a Sunday and asked people: “What do you think about the technological singularity?” All those who agreed to talk to us are included. We’ll be testing this line of inquiry in […]
Oh, we’ve been on a Burroughs rampage lately… so here’s a short clip of uncle Bill or someone like him promoting a special show titled “New World Disorder” hosted by R.U. Sirius and produced by Don Joyce of Negativland  that was broadcast on KPFA in Berkeley in 1991.  The show was in response to Operation Desert […]
Some time in 1986, I walked into Cody’s Books in Berkeley and saw a book on prominent display titled Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond by Martin Lee and Bruce Schlain.  Containing an impulse to start dancing around the aisles, I grabbed a copy and bought it. […]
By 1988, High Frontiers was a somewhat more smoothly functioning operation. We’d given up — for the moment — on trying to get out more than 2 issues a year, but we were running a very dynamic and well attended local lecture/community gathering series called Reality Hackers Forum at Julia Morgan Theater in Berkeley, putting […]
