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    thewriteguy: This sounds like a new take on TRON. more »
    papercup mixmaster: I'm confused. The attack only kills off those who had plugged themselves into the 'Tubes? Is the story about how nobody else even notices they're dead... more »
    nextbigfuture: The future has to get funded (thus there needs to be 4-8 year implementable plan to get to revenue and profit) and people have to successfully work on... more »
    BaileyLebanon: Correct me if I'm wrong, but neither Neofiles nor The RU Sirius Show have been updated in over a year. If RU is doing some other podcasts could someon... more »
    mindthrall: Why drawing the line at 120 years of life? Can you elaborate on why you would fight against the abilities of others to choose the span of their years? more »
    corpore-metal: I'm a singularity skeptic too. It's not that I don't believe that humans will eventually use technology totally re-shape their biology and re-define t... more »
    cljohnston108: Gee, I thought R.U. Sirius was the name of Brewster Rockit's ship. more »
    eschatoon: Re "Charlie Stross sort-of characterizes the movement as being full of "socially dysfunctional libertarians" and "minarchists." He's about a decade be... more »
    rek: They've run out of things to predict and science/technology is just starting to turn 20+ year old ideas into workable things. Perhaps when we look bac... more »
    Rasselas: One muses that the greatest possible transformation for most of these guys would be to shed their California-in-the-'80s vainglory. more »
    Fishypu: So when do we get to start philosophizing about the existence of a Ghost in our Shell? I'm hoping that when I hit the the golden age of 33, I'll be a... more »
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    Bryan Singer's New Series Punishes The Net-Needy, Stupid

    Superman Returns and X-Men director Bryan Singer is coming back to science fiction, with new project H+ - a web-series based around a future worst-case scenario for everyone who spends a little bit too much time online. More »
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    Transhumanist Tech Is A Boner Pill That Sets Up a Firewall Against Billy Joel

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    Can Futurism Escape the 1990s?

    A new transhumanist magazine, H+, has just hit the ether and is packed with stories about implantable information technology, longevity drugs, and the importance of preparing for a near future where humans take control of their own evolution. The cover is of a hot CGI babe sporting reprogrammable makeup and a lip stud that is also her PDA. Why does this future look almost exactly like the future that we were predicting back in 1992? Partly that's because the magazine was created by R.U. Sirius, writer and co-founder of 90s futurist mag Mondo 2000, whose 20-year-old ideas about a posthuman tomorrow still feel relevant. Is futurism stuck in the past? More »