Transgressive Love: Cyborg Tenderness – Part 2
PART ONE: Techno Desire and Cyber Sex It is now easy to love our selves as cyborgs, cyborg love is here, embrace it. The essential notion of Cyborg love is constructive transgression, a spreading out of our sense perception, into new domains of feeling. More than stimulating, less than exciting, slightly uncomfortable, the cyborg symbiosis...
Techno Desire and Cyber Sex – Part 1
That we are intimate with the world is not news. That we have extended this intimacy to our tools is a reality; the idea that we are becoming cyborgs is already here. There is nothing mysterious or futuristic about being a cyborg, part machine part biological organism. Using our smartphones to remember our appointments, a...
Is There Anybody Out There?
Is there life elsewhere in the universe? The answer to this most fundamental question is either yes, meaning we are part of a cosmos dotted with other lifeforms and perhaps even other civilisations, or no, in which case we are unique, special and alone. What would it mean to us as species to answer that...
A Voyage to the Future
Technologies of the future will owe much to the space industry as they do today, but what of our future in space itself? Though the space cities that sprawl across our science fiction may be some way off, we have already taken our first faltering steps in that direction. The International Space Station continues to...
Building The Bionic City: The Ultimate Smart City
Albert Einstein once said, “The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.” Leonardo da Vinci exemplifies the pertinence of Einstein’s comment, for as an illegitimate child da Vinci was exempt from receiving a formal education and thus self-taught; learning much of what he knew from his personal observations of the natural world....
Life in 2050: An Infographic
Thanks to the smart people at GOOD, we now have a beautiful infographic displaying the crowd-sourced visions of the future. Using data from Pew Research and the Smithsonian Magazine, the visual map indicates the most vital breakthroughs we can expect to see. The over-arching message is that technological advancement will surge ahead offering up conversation-ready...
