#Miscellaneous
IBM Could Have Fully Working Human Brain Made Out Of Electronics By 2019.
Humanity seems dead-set on forcing its own obsolescence. Hey let’s just created flesh-covered robots! Hey let’s just give machines sentience and get them to think for themselves! The latest: hey, let’s create a human brain out of electronics and then laugh at ourselves. Puffy fleshy meat cages!
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‘Independence Day’ Back-To-Back Sequels Happening With Or Without Fresh Prince. ‘Kay.
ID4 is one of the classic movies in the pantheon of American cinema, executed by two brilliant auteurs. That said, it’s been a good goddamn forever since it came out, and there’s talk that sequels are coming. Even if the only Totem that could transfer the franchise’s relevance from one generation to the next decides to sit it out.
Fear Fest: Zombies! The Goddamn Undead.
OCTOBER 27th, Zombies
“Yea, I know I’m ugly … I said to a bartender, ‘Make me a zombie.’ He said ‘God beat me to it.’”
-Rodney Dangerfield
Today’s fear comes out of the world of horror stories and voodoo religions. Originally the term was meant to describe a person who was hypnotized or under a spell, it wasn’t until recent times that it was applied to animated corpses.
Video: Father of the iPod Creates Tech Fetish Thermostat. Yes, Thermostat.
Leave it to Tony Fadell who is considered to be the “father of the iPod” to create a sexy thermostat that can be looked at as yet another technological fetish object. It’s sexy, it’s smart. It remembers when you wake up, and what temperatures you like.
Hit the jump to check it out.
Genius Dude Carves A Smartphone Dock Into His Fake Arm. The Future. Welcome To It.
Meet Trevor Prideaux. The man who build a fucking smartphone dock into his prosthetic arm. The posthumanist geek in me gets a bit warm in the loins just thinking about this. Oh lord. Oh lord yes.
Fear Fest: The Boogieman. He’s Totally Not In Your Closet.
OCTOBER 25th, the Boogeyman
“There is no such thing as a soul. It’s just something they made up to scare kids, like the boogeyman or Michael Jackson.”
-Bart Simpson
When it comes to instilling fear in children, the boogeyman is second to none. The boogeyman traces his origin back to the source of most children’s fears; parents. For the most part, the boogeyman was made up to use fear to teach children lessons. I’ve often said that fear is the most powerful of motivators, and the boogeyman is the manifestation of this idea in practice.
Fear Fest: Ape-ocalypse. G’damn Dirty Super Intelligent F**kers.
OCTOBER 25th, Ape-ocalypse
“It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.”
-H.L. Mencken
Today’s fear has been on my mind since I saw Rise of Planet of the Apes a few weeks back. I’m not going to take specifics from the film beyond the concept, but for posterity’s sake, I did enjoy it.
iTunes Creator Working On Apple HDTV. Steve Jobs Bio Blah Blah.
Everyone’s been blathering about the Steve Jobs biography that’s been churned out with stunning rapidity, and all the juicy bullshit in it. One of the factoids that’s continue bouncing around the churning machinery and noise tunnels is that of a purported Apple HDTV.
Standard Creates Artifical Skin From Nanotubes For Robots and Humans. Skinjobs Inc.
Geniuses at Stanford University are doing a good job of propelling the robot apocalypse. Anyone who has watched Battlestar Galactica knows that we must be ever vigilant about robots donning skin and infiltrating our society before launching the nukes. This threat is even more close now that these the aforementioned brainiacs have created what is essentially artificial skin.
Fear Fest: Terrorism!
OCTOBER 24th, Terrorism
“Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be faith in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.”
-Miguel de Cervantes
Wow, 7 days of fear left. Quite the journey we’ve been on. I’ve got some good fears lined up for this week. Some of them are abstract; some of them are very real. So let’s dive into today’s fear.
