We're closer to becoming real cyborgs than most people realize

In the New York Times the other day, there was a great story by Pagan Kennedy about experiments with brain-computer interfaces, which included the stuff you usually hear about, like people moving cursors with their minds. But it also included some new stuff, like Kennedy herself choosing a picture on her phone using…

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Donna Summer is the Mother of Science Fiction

Donna Summer's "I Feel Love" was the futuristic dance music song of the late 1970s. But she wasn't the only disco goddess to get futuristic. Disco historian Tim Lawrence told io9 that the music that got the Village People in a sweat was also science fictional to its core. Not only did disco borrow from science fiction, …

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