from BruceS Beyond the Beyond we learn about this extreme blogger as artist: Turbulence Commission: “My Beating Blog” by Yury Gitman with technical assistance from Benjamin Bacon “My Beating Blog” is an attempt to take the journaling aspect of blogging into a surrealistic future in which the author literally and metaphorically bares his heart. For […]
Read more "extreme bloggin’ as art"An awesome treat here as Tom Maddox interviews Bruce Sterling for his podcast. Hear Bruce’s theory on what Asimov what be doing if he was just getting started today. Or why Bruce still hasn’t finished his ubicomp book, but is still publishing a novella on the subject.
Read more "listen to Tom Maddox and Bruce Sterling chew the fat"details of Microsoft Research project on digitally recording daily activities…
Read more "extreme bloggin’"from New York Times Meet the Life Hackers By CLIVE THOMPSON Published: October 16, 2005 In 2000, Gloria Mark was hired as a professor at the University of California at Irvine. Until then, she was working as a researcher, living a life of comparative peace. She would spend her days in her lab, enjoying the […]
Read more "NYT piece on “life hacking”"via Spectrum IEEE Rise of the Body Bots .. Today, in Japan and the United States, engineers are finally putting some practical exoskeletons through their paces outside of laboratories. But don’t look for these remarkable new systems to bust bricks or spew lightning. The very first commercially available exoskeleton, scheduled to hit the market in […]
Read more "functional exoskeletons coming soon?"Will We Merge With Machines? – Popular Science Popular Science has scoured the most promising research under way in bioengineering laboratories worldwide to take an informed look at how technology will enter and alter our bodies over the coming decades.
Read more "PopularScience overview of biotech.."The line that has long separated human beings from the machines that assist them is blurring as complex technologies become a visible part of people who depend upon them. Unlike pacemakers and fabricated heart valves that are embedded in the body, these technologies are, so to speak, worn on their users’ sleeves.
Increasingly, amputees, especially young men like Mr. Clapp, and soldiers who have lost limbs in Afghanistan and Iraq, are choosing not to hide their prosthetics under clothing as previous generations did. Instead, some of the estimated 1.2 million amputees in the United States proudly polish and decorate their electronic limbs for all to see.
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The Committee to Nuke Elysium 