#March2012
Tweets Can Now Be Cited In Academic Papers. This Is Awesome.
Tweets can now be cited in academic papers. Many will recoil over this. I fucking love it.
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Scientists Can Now Create Human Eggs From Stem Cells. The Rubicon Is Being Crossed.
Oh lord, we’re tampering with the Seals of the Cosmos. Exceeding our limits. 7-Eleven? Dubstep? Both tempt the Lords of Kobol to smite us. However if those haven’t incurred a Wrath in the Year of the Mayan Oblivion, this may finally do us in. We can now create human eggs from stem cells.
Playboy and Virgin Want to Build A Night Club IN SPACE.
Now I don’t go to night clubs, but this is one I’d kill to attend. A night club in space. This is something out of Neuromancer or Altered Carbon, and that gets my loins writhing.
Printer Can Print Human Tissue For Drug Testing. No Words. No. Words.
A wizardlicious start-up named Organovo uses a 3D printer to blow your fucking mind. More specifically, with less vulgarity: they use a 3D printer to build a variety of human tissue types. Just go reread that sentence.
Then hit the jump.
Your Heartbeat Could Become Your Password. Futurism!
This is some science-fiction boner time right here. A team at National Chung Hsing University in Taichung, Taiwan have translated a human heartbeat into an encryption key. Stealing someone’s password is about to get pretty messy. Puns! Aha!
Behold! Winston Churchill’s Dieselpunk Life Pod He Used In Airplanes. Amazing.
A little bit of the old Retro-Future to start your week off. Winston Churchill was a beefy old bastard who wasn’t supposed to fly above 5,000 feet. Given that the motherfucker had to, you know, fly a lot, how’d they get around this little mortality bit? Boom! Life pod in action.
File-sharing Religion Officially Recognized In Sweden. Wut? Rock.
Welcome to the Future, where there is a file-sharing religion officially recognized by a government. The Church of Kopimism is a religion predicated on sharin’ them torrents and the such. Outstanding.
Scientists Say ‘Matrix’ Style Learning Could Be Coming. Teachers Wince.
Remember that time in The Matrix where Neo totally learned kung fu in like ten seconds? That shit apparently isn’t so outlandish according to some scientists. The only drawback is the same sort of chicanery could be used for, you know, mind control and the ish.
Engineers Have Created LED Display You Wear Like Contact Lens. Future. Welcome.
One of the many things future soothsayer hero of mine Warren Ellis predicted in Doktor Sleepless (though perhaps other have before him, but I love the fucker) were contact lenses that augmented the fuck out of your reality. They’re coming. Humanity, prepare to be altered.
Virgin Has Opened The First Commercial Spaceport. Mars, I Come To Thee!
Richard Branson has opened the first commercial fucking spaceport in the solar system. Galaxy? Maybe. Universe? Of course not! They probe me and laugh! Oh, they laugh. No seriously though, this is pretty fucking sweet.
