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I would suggest that Bender is clearly a person, just not a human person.
-Kle.
09/24/09
Much love for including ZERO-enabled mobile suits on the list too; I had all but forgotten about them. And much much love for including GiTS on the list; I think you were right yesterday - more intuitive inclusion on this list than yesterday's. And Gally! Well done. ::salutes::
09/24/09
But why doesn't Io9 have a dedicated anime column? You like Gundam, you like Ghost in the Shelll....
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Evangelion sucks. (I just had to repeat it)
09/24/09
Shadowrun has riggers (a term that, I believe, was originally used with this meaning in Walter John Williams' Hard Wired) who plug into drones and vehicles either directly or remotely, giving them enhanced reaction time and finer control over the vehicle.
There are at least two transhumanist RPGs I know of that allow for player characters to copy their personalities into digital form: the out-of-print but not out-of-stock Transhuman Space from Steve Jackson Games and the Creative Commons Licensed (and therefore free in PDF; just Google "Eclipse Phase RPG free download" and poke around a little) Eclipse Phase from Catalyst Games.
09/24/09
Also, io9 needs some tabletop RPG love, of the sci fi variety.
09/24/09
In EarthBound Ness and his friends must have their souls placed in robot bodies in order to travel through time because time travel destroys organic matter. Though technically this seems like complete transference rather than remote control, they get their bodies back afterward so I thought it fit better in this post.
Oh, and by the way, play EarthBound.
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Just keep away from my pelvic splanchnic ganglion...
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CJ, you crack me up lady.
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It's his next project after Avatar. Word is, he's already started pre-production on the digital properties he'll need once filming starts.
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From wikipedia:
"Appearing in Char's Counterattack, the psycoframe is a technology that builds the psycommu system into nano-receptors within the structural framework of a mobile suit. This allows an extremely high concentration of psycommu perception, and a Newtype pilot would be able to control the mobile suit as if it were his/her own body (somewhat similar to how the suits in G Gundam are controlled). Traditional psycommu systems require sizeable sub-systems, and are typically mounted on larger platforms such as a mobile armor or an uncommonly large mobile suit. With the development of the psycoframe, it became possible to implement a psycommu system into a smaller mobile suit."
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I think it's an interesting question (something Australian author Greg Egan would probably write about).
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(And I still got misty eyed at the end of "Flowers for Algernon" even though this must be the third or fourth time I've read it.)
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There was, kind of, Agent Smith in the Matrix films.
Oh, and Innerspace had folks in robots inside other folks!
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Somehow, I think your films probably still fit that role, huh?
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Totally wasn't hentai, though. That would be weird.
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And Mer can delete my comments all she wants, but I still say it's a little arrogant of Mexico to think it would be the recipient of outsourced tele-presence mecha labor instead of India, where all the tech jobs are going these days. I mean who would you trust with your million dollar robotic drones: the culture that believes the 80 work week starts at age 8, or the one that came up with the concept of "Siesta?"
04/06/09
I mean... originally it wasn't just nappy time for "dem lazy messicans".
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The kicker? The whole thing will be filmed in anti-zombie movie cliche. Long shots, panoramic views, steady cameras, no jump cutting, almost no blood at all.
04/06/09
Don't forget a nice instrumental score, all acoustic.