Art & Entertainment

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A few weeks ago, Mark Bernardin at io9 asked: “Why doesn’t Syfy or AMC or HBO roll the dice and make a Starship Troopers miniseries, one with all the production value and attention to detail of The Pacific or Battlestar Galactica?”

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Symphony of Science. Photo: wikimedia.org/

Ever since Karlheinz Stockhausen first started monkeying around with magnetic tape, artists have been using the human voice as a source for sonic manipulation.

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The Warcraft Civilization by William Sims Bainbridge. Photo: mitpress.mit.edu/

OK, so there is no way of knowing whether any of those parallel universes described by theoretical physicists truly exist. But if any of those parallel Earths are out there, I have a pretty good idea what my parallel-me is doing right about now...

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Batman/Bruce Wayne. Photo: myfreewallpapers.net/

When I tell people I study transhumanism I get three responses: “What?” “Wow!” and “Is that like posthumanism?”

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iPhone 1.6. Photo: unity3d.com/unity/whats-new/iphone-1.6

Last month, h+ covered the work of Professor Byron Reeves, who champions the adaptation of gaming technologies for the workplace.

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Todd Howard, the game director for Bethesda Softworks, plays Fallout 3 in his office. Photo: npr.org/

The online game StarCraft is a televised national pastime in South Korea. With hundreds of licensed pros divided into twelve teams (each with a major sponsor such as Samsung)...

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Football gambling

You know it’s summer when newsstands across America have an explosion of magazines, typically meant to have shelf-life until fall, on the topic of do-it-yourself prediction.

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STERLAC - London, Los Angeles, Melborne 2006. Photo by: Nina Sellars

The following is an extract from a dialogue between Murray McKeich’s p-zombie and Stelarc’s Prosthetic Head.

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Take your latest CGI of an improbably-hued accretion disk and shove it. I wanted to watch future or other-world parents ragging on their conflicted, rebellious teenaged offspring;

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