I thought this was super interesting and helpful. Thanks for the summary!

It's been a while since I've indulged in my favourite hobby of posting Judge Dredd as the answer to every Open Channel I possibly can, but I couldn't miss this one :)

Who's the Iron Bitch?

Well that whole "dur hur god did it an we aren't hallucinations, but angels that confusingly just happen to look like living people we know" b.s. sure seemed like nonsense someone without a plan would come up with.

"I see you've played sword spooney before, then?"

Batman!

Look at pictures of women in Afghanistan from the fifties and compare them to today. http://www.npr.org/templates/stor… Change can happen frighteningly fast.

I liked Gibson's approach in "Neuromancer," in which he had EMP-capable devices strapped to each AI mainframe, to be triggered like a shotgun to the forehead the nanosecond one tries to iteratively self-improve. My favorite tale of AI on AI (and humanity) violence.

A podcast! Definitely a podcast. With Annalee plus a rotating io9 staffer — Charlie, Lauren, Bricken. I don't think you'd need outside guests, just chat more about the topics that are already covered.

Magnets... always with the magnets.

:-D

I know it's a movie by itself, but the poster for this reminds me of an anime. Here and Then, Now and There.

Methinks these were designed by someone's great grandfather...

Otisburg?