this piece of art is one of the best things that’s gonna happen to the cyberpunk movement this year (apart from the first Doktor Sleepless trade paperback and the hopefully promising re-make of Ghost in the Shell and Pearry, trust me, you don’t release The Gene Generation in 2008, we’re so releasing doom in your pants.

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It’s 2019. The web of 6 trillion computing cores – 6 billion processing chips containing 1000 cores each – networked as if local to each other have simulated a path out of destruction for humanity. We have 23 years to go if we follow the human leadership – 2300 years or more if we blindly follow the computing intelligence – what do we choose?
7/11/08 11:24am
by Jane McGonigal

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The Trons – a self playing robotic junk band

Meet The Trons a “self playing robotic junk band”:

Here is an interview with their creator:

The Trons – a self playing robotic junk band

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Laugh and your avatar will soon laugh with you

From New Scientist Tech:

Software that can automatically recognise “non-linguistic” sounds, such as laughter, and generate an appropriate facial animation sequence, could improve the…

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Mike Hills replied to the discussion ‘Saturn’s Children’ by Charles Stross – crossover event?

Mike Hills replied to the discussion ‘Saturn’s Children’ by Charles Stross – crossover event?

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Mike Hills replied to the discussion ‘Saturn’s Children’ by Charles Stross – crossover event?

Mike Hills replied to the discussion ‘Saturn’s Children’ by Charles Stross – crossover event?

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