My memory is shit. I desperately NEED a RAM expansion!

Well, naturally (pun intended)—but there's no point in reinventing the wheel, or the protein-folding schema, if it's already extant in nature. The best biomimetic design takes stuff already proven by billions of years of evolution and combines it with novel elements that either greatly extend its capabilities or make…

Damn—they made even MORE?!

Why build nanomachines from scratch when nature has already evolved some pretty damn sophisticated variants on its own? Biomimetic design RULES.

d): This image by H. R. Giger was the clear inspiration for the "pyramids"...which were fucking DOMES, not pyramids, in the first damn place!

I could live there.

Yyyyep. That prettymuch says it all!

This film was complete garbage. I wasn't too thrilled about it when I heard it was Yet Another Ancient Astronauts movie (and btw, good show on using the Ancient Aliens meme above!), but at least the trailers made it look...pretty. I thought there might be some good aliens-vs.-humans action in it—and there wasn't. In…

I am by no means some idiotic climate-change denialist, but this sort of OMG-THE-WORLD'S-GONNA-END-TOMORROW alarmism is...ridiculous, at best. It is very, very hard to destabilize a planetary ecosystem to the point where the plant will end up uninhabitable at worst or, at best, simply unfit for human life. An asteroid…

ABSOLUTELY NOT. We NEED psychopaths to make the hard decisions so-called "normal" people cannot. There is a place for any and all neural models in the polyhumanistic world of the 21st Century.\!

Ah, see, I realize now that I'm thinking more in terms of Human Revolution than the previous games, which I haven't played in YEARS.

"Steal more patents from Tesla."

For a video game, though—a genre that routinely treats science as indistinguishable from fantasy—Deus Ex was surprisingly founded in actual science. It's by no means realistic in a hard-sci-fi sense, but its authors clearly at least did a modicum of research into actual neurotechnology and -biology rather than just…

THANK YOU—I've been trying to remember the name of that movie for, like, two days now. I couldn't remember David Cronenberg's name, either, so looking it up on IMDB was impossible. Good gods, I need a flash-memory slot installed ASAP.

Oh, gods—THIS idiot again? Wonder if he'll fuck up and water down the concept of human enhancement as badly as he did AI in Robopocalypse.

Who gives a shit? It's about advertising parasites! It could be a SyFy Channel movie for all I care, as long as the story is interesting, I don't care if the "FX" are just coloured socks pulled over people's heads.

DEFINITELY Burroughs-esque, with more than a little of post-1974 Phillip K. Dick, as well.

I've always loved the Deux Ex series for its reasonable amounts of realism. In ANY kind of sci-fi, certain details are going to be stretched and/or glossed over (or outright ignored_ in favour of a good narrative—but the BEST stories are those that manage to keep the glossing et. al. as unnoticeable or unimportant as…

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I completely support this idea. I would give anything not to have to carry around a wallet full of stupid plastic cards to verify my identity, give me access to my bank accounts, list my medical allergies, and so forth. Mind you, such implanted chips would have to be HEAVILY encrypted in order to prevent spoofing, but…