Humans vs. Cyborgs in Utopia
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"Appleseed," a new animated science-fiction spectacle from Japan, has a plot that frolics in the no-man's land between fiendish complexity and utter incomprehensibility.
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Sega's recent announcement that it will be incorporating mind-reading technology from NeuroSky into some games prompts the question: Is the age of brain control upon us? Not quite -- the tech needs work, but many companies plan to incorporate it into games and gadgets.
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Has it come to this? Robots standing in for doctors at the hospital patients' bedside?
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Let's not get carried away in our speculation about what robots will and won't do to sex. In Sex Drive Daily.
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Blog: Two futuristic music interfaces--the Tenori-On and the Monome--are in a race to capture the hearts of electronic musicians.
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Within 50 years, biotech will suffuse everyday life just as computer technology does now -- so says Freeman Dyson.  It's not new, but the futurist describes his vision, from DIY genetic engineering for pigeon fanciers and schoolchildren to green industrial.
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Inside the unfathomable superhuman future after the 'singularity.' By Bruce Sterling from Wired magazine.
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Though not nearly as entertaining, it continues the theme that machines can hold power over humans, even when the people are fighting to regain control.
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Director Ridley Scott's original vision for the groundbreaking sci-fi flick comes out in a baffling array of DVD sets. Luckily, they all capture a bleak future in which uppity androids get popped for becoming self-aware (and there's no narration to kill the mood).
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An upstart adult industry venture pioneers a revolution in technology and entertainment. Again. Commentary by Regina Lynn.
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Ray Kurzweil, an inventor fascinated with the connection between humans and computers, says that emerging trends in biotechnology are opening a realistic path to immortality.
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By Laurence Phelan  This camp, lavish, ahead-of-its-time Technicolor space opera stands apart from the the cycle of sci-fi films that Hollywood made in the 1950s - paranoid, earthbound, black-and-white B-movies featuring atomic mutation or alien (for which read Communist) invasion.
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Imagining hundreds of outage-related micro-dramas unfolding simultaneously.
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When 11-year-old Tomohiro Yasui fashioned paper replacements for his fighting robots, he had no idea what he was starting. By Lisa Katayama from Wired magazine.
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Technology challenges us to question our assumptions about love, fidelity and who we can have sex with. Commentary by Regina Lynn.
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Computers long ago ceased to be simply tools. Instead, like digital music players and digital cameras, they are coming to reflect peopleÂs tastes and aspirations.
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Among the handiest villains in science fiction are Computers That Know Too Much. Think of the dream-weaving despots of "The Matrix" or murderous HAL in "2001: A Space Odyssey." But in reality, even the most super supercomputer lacks the reasoning capacity of a child engrossed in a Dr. Seuss book. Computers can't read the way we do. They can't learn or reason like us.