RT @DARPA: has inspired people for We're happy to return the favor & push limits further:

RT @DARPA: has inspired people for We're happy to return the favor & push limits further:

RT @benjaminwittes: Fascinating keynote at by @KevinBankston about the history of @EFF and its relationship to 80s

in Film A Complete Illustrated History of Robots in the Movies

De 1974 à l’an cinq milliards, l’histoire du monde vue par la science-fiction

retour sur Dune, la planète des sables

RT @meganeellison: "Science is magic that Works" -Kurt Vonnegut

Microsoft, Google, Apple and other firms have sponsored lecture series in which science fiction writers give talks to employees and then meet privately with developers and research departments. Perhaps nothing better demonstrates the close tie between science fiction and technology today than what is called “design fiction”—imaginative works commissioned by tech companies to model new ideas. Some corporations hire authors to create what-if stories about potentially marketable products. “I really like design fiction or prototyping fiction,” says novelist Cory Doctorow, whose clients have included Disney and Tesco. “There is nothing weird about a company doing this—commissioning a story about people using a technology to decide if the technology is worth following through on. It’s like an architect creating a virtual fly-through of a building.” Doctorow, who worked in the software industry, has seen both sides of the development process. “I’ve been in engineering discussions in which the argument turned on what it would be like to use the product, and fiction can be a way of getting at that experience.”

Cette surmédiatisation du concept de cyborg va jusqu’à engendrer une mise en question passionnée de l’appareillage, domaine où la raison devrait nous guider : qui oserait lancer un débat «pour ou contre» la chaise roulante ou la canne anglaise ? Le sujet amputé, plus ou moins «réparé», se retrouve involontairement enjeu de discussions sur l’«augmentation» du corps dont il connaît, lui, les limites, au risque de rendre encore plus compliquée l’image qu’il a de lui-même et que la société se fait de lui.

"I'm not trying to predict the am trying to use to somewhat understand an unthinkable -William Gibson @GreatDismal