In case you haven’t heard, Deus Ex: Human Revolution is the bomb. Go get it. If you’ve already played through it, you can’t help wondering just how far off the future depicted in the game is, when prosthetic “augmentations” become the optimum human condition. The answer is revealed in this slick, 12.5-minute documentary. Read more »
When many of us think about Cyborgs we picture Caprica, Battlestar Galatica or Dr. Who, but in reality Cyborg technology is emerging at tremenous rates, making it possible for people to walk again, to see where sight was once not found and even to control technological devices through body-to-device interfacing. Basically, it should come as no surprise that Cyborg rights are starting to make their first real appearances. Speaking as the Keynote speaker for the IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society, Dr. Roger Clarke from the Australian National University discussed the importance of cyborg rights. Sure much of what Clarke argued was abstract principles for the future, but he Read more »
