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oneirophreniaYou know, when I was a kid, I always used to dream about living in The Future, where everyone would own flying cars and be half-robot and all music would sound like Gary Numan's The Pleasure Principle. For a while, the 21st Century was disappointing me by being so lame and unlike my early dreams....But fuck THAT noise! Stuff is really starting to get cool as hell now!
An Israeli scientist has developed an underwater diving system that filters oxygen out of seawater just like a fish's gills. I remember reading about this tech in, like, a few hundred different sci-fi novels back in the early '80s. Looks like it's going to be a reality pretty damn soon.
IBM is teaming up with some Swiss company to build a computer simulation of a brain. Oh, it's not going to be selfaware or anything, but it's a step in the right direction. Soon, they will be able to build a simulacrum of MY brain! And when they do....Ohboy!
Plus, humans have now built the first self-replicating robots. They're still primitive as hell, but they work.
In twenty years, we're all going to be looking back on this year and saying, "Yep...2005 was The Year that It All Began."
In thirty years, I seriously want to be part of the final push to eradicate the last remaining organic humans, or at least forcibly upload them into a museum virtual where we can just laugh at them all processor-cycle long.
An Israeli scientist has developed an underwater diving system that filters oxygen out of seawater just like a fish's gills. I remember reading about this tech in, like, a few hundred different sci-fi novels back in the early '80s. Looks like it's going to be a reality pretty damn soon.
IBM is teaming up with some Swiss company to build a computer simulation of a brain. Oh, it's not going to be selfaware or anything, but it's a step in the right direction. Soon, they will be able to build a simulacrum of MY brain! And when they do....Ohboy!
Plus, humans have now built the first self-replicating robots. They're still primitive as hell, but they work.
In twenty years, we're all going to be looking back on this year and saying, "Yep...2005 was The Year that It All Began."
In thirty years, I seriously want to be part of the final push to eradicate the last remaining organic humans, or at least forcibly upload them into a museum virtual where we can just laugh at them all processor-cycle long.
