Nature/Culture: The Tissue Culture King
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 →
The Beautiful Mind
There is this online gallery that combines that the art and science of the brain into visually interesting images. http://www.enception.org/
The Singularity Is Near
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 →