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Art & Entertainment

Prosthetic Head Meets P-Zombie

Date Published: March 9, 2010 | View more articles in:

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.

Down To Earth: An interview with Caprica Executive Producer Jane Espenson

Date Published: January 20, 2010 | View more articles in:

Image Courtesy of NBC Universal

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;

Caprica: Birth of the Cylons

Date Published: January 19, 2010 | View more articles in:

Caprica. Photo courtesy: Justin Stephens/Syfy

Ray Kurzweil has famously suggested that humanity will achieve human-level artificial intelligence (AI) sometime in the next 20 years.

Turning Work into Play with Online Games

Date Published: January 13, 2010 | View more articles in:

Digital Humans

For many, work is a daily grind. We procrastinate and avoid doing tasks we’d rather not do, and often find it difficult to get excited about tasks and projects assigned to us.

Best Seat in the House: You're Virtually There

Date Published: December 30, 2009 | View more articles in:

rock concert with jumbo screen

It’s 2006, and I am now accustomed to the jumbo screens to either side of the main stage at any given major music festival.

Chronic Citizen: Jonathan Lethem on P.K. Dick, Why Novels are a Weird Technology, and Constructed Realities

Date Published: December 18, 2009 | View more articles in:

Chronic Citizen Johnathan Lethem. Photo: Fred Benenson

While mainstream literary figures sometimes praise their fellow writers, rarely do they present themselves publicly as hardcore pop culture fans.

Battle Angel: The Cameron Epic That Might Have Been (And Might Still Be)

Date Published: December 16, 2009 | View more articles in:

Battle Angel by Yukito Kishiro

Avatar, James Cameron‘s first feature film since Titanic is a transhuman film, sort of a $300 million Pocahontas story told through the world‘s most powerful graphics card by one of the most acclaimed directors in Hollywood.

You’re such a toolkit

Date Published: December 10, 2009 | View more articles in:

 The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink

The only surprising truth about Daniel H. Pink’s undercooked attempt to mimic Gladwellian generalizations is that this Yale-educated charlatan seriously expects rational human beings to pony up twenty-seven hard-earned bucks for a book with more than fifty pages devoted to something called “The Type I Tookit.”

What's Inside What?

Date Published: December 9, 2009 | View more articles in:

Douglas Rushkoff. Photo: rushkoff.com

You are standing in an open field, west of a white house with a boarded front door. One of the most famous first lines in video games, this sentence opens the seminal text adventure Zork.

Lost in the Filth Simulacrum

Date Published: December 8, 2009 | View more articles in:

Black Hole with binary

They say the children are our future. But if 4chan is any indication of what they have in store for us, we are in for a very rough time indeed.