The first six episodes of the much anticipated transhumanist apocalyptic micro-drama H+ The Digital Series are now out. This is a brief review and set of initial impressions. Warning: It includes spoilers for all six episodes out so far. H+ The Digital Series is directed by Bryan Singer (X-men) and distributed online by Warner Brothers […]
Half a lifetime ago, I flew from JFK to the Oakland airport with the intention of starting the “Neopsychedelic Wave” — by starting a magazine, a rock band and a political organization of some undetermined nature. Now that the world is a gassy utopia full of happy starchildren sucking peace -and-love lollipops on space colonies […]
Ever have one of those moments when you want to praise someone for sheer brilliance, and slap them for being an idiot at the same time? http://www.gizmag.com/wifi-robot/23471/ gave me just such a moment. On the one hand, it’s a brilliant idea. Take a group of engineering undergrads, and let them loose. Result: one nearly indestructible drone […]
Of all the weird jobs I’ve had in my life, the most entertaining was probably a floor managing gig I took in the early 2000s at a metaphysical shop called Gateways Books. In a town known for its high WTF factor — Santa Cruz, CA — this place was quite possibly WTF Headquarters. Gateways was […]
Another segment from Use Your Hallucinations: MONDO 2000 in the Late 20th Century Cyberculture One fine Sunday, we had a party — it may have been for the release of one of our newsletters — and it was possibly the biggest we’d ever had. The backyard at Quail House looked almost like a small rock […]
Another segment from the rough draft of Use Your Hallucinations: Mondo 2000 in the 20th Century Cyberculture. Note that “the total fucking transmutation of everything” is established as a conceit early in the narrative, thus its use here reflects on a major theme. …Meanwhile, we made a rash decision. Despite High Frontiers relatively successful rise […]
Yes, 218 years ago today, Maximilien Robespierre was overthrown and, the following day, lost his head. And so, in memoriam, and for your weekend amusement, I give you a scene from Peter Weiss’s Marat/Sade, which I stumbled upon and watched on PBS in 1969, at age 16, after watching Richard Nixon defend the Vietnam War, while […]
Ouya is a new open source video game console that runs on the Android operating system. It’s crowdfunded by Kickstarter. The console features a Tegra 3 CPU, 8GB of storage, 1 GB RAM, USB 2.0, an SD card slot, HDMI connection, and WiFi and Bluetooth support. The controller features a touchpad. The console will be […]
If you’ve been a regular reader of my work, you know I’ve spent a lot of time discussing a future that is much more portable than today’s. From super-computer-like smart phones to drones to skin tight exoskeletons enabling a variety of physical enhancements from strength and endurance to cosmetic morphability, the future is full of […]
Another outtake from the upcoming MONDO 2000 History Project book: Use Your Hallucinations:  MONDO 2000 in the Late 20th Century Cyberculture R.U. Sirius: One evening not long after the move to Berkeley, we went to see a Terence McKenna talk at the local new age venue, Shared Visions. Terence was still relatively unknown and he […]
