Aaaaaand now you can have pretty much *all* of that in your mobile phone. Oh dear.

Yep, the science fictional story of robots as a metaphor for all repressed, oppressed and alienated people, works pretty well, doesn't it?

Donna Haraway would like to know more!

We're no longer as scared of overpopulation...wait what??? What scientist is not terrified of over population? Over Population is probably the number one threat to us aas a civilization over the next 100 years.

Waitaminute: "...first noninvasive human-to-human brain interface..."

The adult entertainment industry already can remotely control at least one part of my body...

I find it very ironic that a state that is so staunchly set against abortion and teen pregnancy prefers teen porn... Makes you think...

You'll have to quote the bit where I said that. I still consider myself a technoprogressive and a bright green and I still reject luddites and all things dark green as uselessly pessimistic. I'm not afraid of technology as long as it's properly managed.

yea i should have read your screen name.

I SOOOOO need one of these. I have a crippling anxiety disorder and not being able to drive is one of the most limiting things in my life. I honestly would trust Google over my own intuition when driving. Please drive me, Google!

"Poop germs," really? You couldn't have gone with fecal bacteria, or something along those lines? I honestly can't take this even remotely seriously simply because of the poor language choice in this article. I feel like the author wrote the word poop as many times as he could for no reason - immature, and amateur.

Lose billions? No group large enough gives a shit. NSA spying has now become part of the cultural zeitgeist.

That's actually pretty dumb... digital video these days is far cheaper, and the technology has gotten to a point where you can colorize it and make it look almost identical to film.

As a linguist and SW fan, I have been waiting for a very, very long time for an appropriate forum to say this:

Yeah, that is some bullshit eh? Canada looks better by the day.

Atheists don't. And no, you can't have faith in "not believing."

I usually say that I love children so much I couldn't possibly inflict this horrible, soul-destroying prison of a world on them.

I love kids, I work with kids, I think kids are totally fantastic and several of my favorite people are kids. But yeah, I'm sure as hell not going to voluntarily inflict more people onto an already strained world.

Tsk. I know I'm feeding an obvious troll but—

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