Neuromancer + 30 Years
Well, I didn’t read Neuromancer until the late 80’s, might have even been 1990, but it’s been an inspiration since. There’s nothing that I can add that so many haven’t said already. Great article over here at TheGauardian.com The Man Who Saw Tomorrow.
On its release, Neuromancer won the “big three” for science fiction: the Nebula, Philip K Dick and Hugo awards. It sold more than 6m copies and launched an entire aesthetic: cyberpunk. In predicting this future, Gibson can be said to have helped shape our conception of the internet. Other novelists are held in higher esteem by literary critics, but few can claim to have had such a wide-ranging influence.
Congratulations Bill, it’s as good a read today as it was 30 years ago. That’s an amazing feat in science fiction.
This is a photo of my 1st Edition copy. Thanks Josh.
Motorola’s Digital Tattoos
It seems everyday I can say, “the future is here.” I know this one is from last year, but it’s awesome. What I love about tech is how people reverse engineer it and turn it into something new. This one has a lot of potential. Motorola has created a digital tattoo for unlocking your phone.
Read more over here at SlashGear.
IMAGES: Dr Todd Coleman; mc10
Modern Polaxis – by Sutu
This is an awesome new project by Sutu, the artist behind the amazing artwork in the first Gatecrashers comic series – A Night of Gatecrashing.
Check out more animated GIFs on Sutueatsflies.tumblr.com
and be sure to go give some money to his kickstarter.
London’s Heathrow as a City
Check out this article over at The Verge where London Mayor Boris Johnson proposes to close Heathrow and build a new airport, thus redeveloping Heathrow as a city.
Forget GMO’s, Genetically Engineered Humans are Here
The first strains of Genetic Engineering have taken hold.
In August 1996, at St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, N.J., a 39-year-old mechanical engineer from Pittsburgh named Maureen Ott became pregnant. Ott had been trying for almost seven years to conceive a child through in vitro fertilization. Unwilling to give up, she submitted to an experimental procedure in which doctors extracted her eggs, slid a needle through their shiny coat and injected not only her husband’s sperm but also a small amount of cytoplasm from another woman’s egg…
Hat tip to @SilkyD67 from NYTIMES.com via TheVerge.com
Photograph from the New York Stem Cell Foundation.
Full Contact Skydiving
Hat tip to Jon Truei.
I guess this is just made for action film training?
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