In preparation for the SymbioticA Workshop over the weekend I read ‘The Tissue Culture King’ a short story by the evolutionary biologist Julian Huxley. The story concerns an English biologist held prisoner by a ‘lost tribe’ somewhere in darkest Africa who, motivated by the desire to experiment, convinces the ruling elite to use biotechnology to reinterpret and transform the religious practices of the society. I was fascinated by the detailed descriptions of the science involved in tissue culture. To my mind the technology described is far more  advanced than I …

There is this online gallery that combines that the art and science of the brain into visually interesting images.
http://www.enception.org/

Came across this book predicting our future from the science point of view.  Something I would draw parallel to the Epic 2015 clip we had seen earlier.
The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil
Got the following off wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singularity_Is_Near
Predictions

2010

Supercomputers will have the same raw power as human brains (although not yet the equivalently flexible software).
Computers will disappear as distinct physical objects, meaning many will have nontraditional shapes and/or will be embedded in clothing and everyday objects.
Full-immersion audio-visual virtual reality will exist.

2010s

Computers become smaller and increasingly integrated into …