The first six episodes of the much anticipated transhumanist apocalyptic micro-drama H+ The Digital Series are now out. This is a brief review and set of initial impressions. Warning: It includes spoilers for all six episodes out so far. H+ The Digital Series is directed by Bryan Singer (X-men) and distributed online by Warner Brothers […]
Half a lifetime ago, I flew from JFK to the Oakland airport with the intention of starting the “Neopsychedelic Wave” — by starting a magazine, a rock band and a political organization of some undetermined nature. Now that the world is a gassy utopia full of happy starchildren sucking peace -and-love lollipops on space colonies […]
Ever have one of those moments when you want to praise someone for sheer brilliance, and slap them for being an idiot at the same time? http://www.gizmag.com/wifi-robot/23471/ gave me just such a moment. On the one hand, it’s a brilliant idea. Take a group of engineering undergrads, and let them loose. Result: one nearly indestructible drone […]
Of all the weird jobs I’ve had in my life, the most entertaining was probably a floor managing gig I took in the early 2000s at a metaphysical shop called Gateways Books. In a town known for its high WTF factor — Santa Cruz, CA — this place was quite possibly WTF Headquarters. Gateways was […]
Another segment from Use Your Hallucinations: MONDO 2000 in the Late 20th Century Cyberculture One fine Sunday, we had a party — it may have been for the release of one of our newsletters — and it was possibly the biggest we’d ever had. The backyard at Quail House looked almost like a small rock […]
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 […]
