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Where Is The Posthuman Bertie Wooster?

Sometime soon — maybe in our lifetimes — we humans will finally exceed our design limitations. We'll interface with artificial intelligences, extend our lifespans, and gain the ability to modify our bodies far beyond our current understanding of prosthetics. And when that happens, our capacity to make total idiots out of ourselves will be increased a thousand-fold. But sadly, there's never really been a posthuman Bertie Wooster. Here are a few pointers on how to write the transhuman fool's progress. More »

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9:00 AM on Wed May 7 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
3,418 views, 44 comments

Latest by n/a: @Lizfu: Ooh, that's very interesting. Especially since the automatic thing most people think about when they think of "Hired Help Of the Future" is robot companions! Yet the humans currently working as servants or otherwise non-idle semi-aristocrats are hardly mindless more »

cyber-heart

A Better Debugger for the Software That Runs Your Cybernetic Heart

Semi-permanent heart pumps like this one are installed in people's hearts all over the world. The problem is that when these software-controlled pumps fail, the blue screen of death is literally killing people. So researchers at Frunhofer-Gesellsschaft Research, who make a popular model of heart pump (or VAD, for ventricular assist device), have invented this model which will serve as a debugger. New software will run on this human simulator, and researchers can see what might go wrong before it stops your heart. More »

7:00 AM on Mon Feb 4 2008
By Annalee Newitz
389 views, 6 comments

Latest by Annalee Newitz: @ManchuCandidate: Yeah, I hear that. A lot of medical and biotech equipment does run Windows. I'm always shocked when I go to a lab where they're doing DNA sequencing and all the frakkin software is written for Windows. more »

Cybercrawlies and Mechanical Brains Nick writes in to tell us that Wired's Jenna Wortham has posted a great gallery of crawly machine creatures by Christopher Conte. Here you can see an insect he made from the parts of old Singer sewing machines. Check out his other amazing stuff, like a Terminator-looking hand and a skull opened up to reveal a mechanical brain. [Wired]

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car chases

Greatest Car Chases In Science Fiction (Part 1)

Emilio Estevez talks smack to Mick Jagger and manages to dodge 10,000 futuristic dune-buggies at the same time, in this huge car-chase from the movie Freejack. Car chases are a huge part of sci-fi movies. And with Knight Rider coming back next month, we want to pay tribute. After all, no matter how high-concept your plot may be (like time travel and brain-transplants) it always comes down to a bunch of cars zooming around trying to smush each other. Here's part one of our favorites, with clips. More »

11:20 AM on Tue Jan 22 2008
By charliejane
26,173 views, 67 comments

Latest by n/a: THX 1138 definitely has a car chase and it's pretty great. Should been on this list, altho I get the feeling this was more for laughs than anything else. more »