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Science & Technology

H+: A Transhumanist Magazine

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 10.17.2008 4:36 PM

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There's a new magazine devoted to transhumanism. Seriously.

Read it to learn about eyeball jewelery, digital tattoo interfaces, and that pioneering self-transformer, Michael Jackson. Plus some serious essays. You know you want to.

Did I mention eyeball bling?

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  1. sage   17 years ago

    If I see anyone with eyeball bling, I’m leaving the country!

  2. zoltan   17 years ago

    Who gives a shit about eyeball bling? I want my neural implants!

  3. joshua corning   17 years ago

    well so long as they actually don’t make humans faster, stronger, or smarter i will simply write these people off as nothing more then tattoo fetishists.

    Contact lenses are epicly more transhuman then pierced dicks and eyeballs ever will be.

  4. Bingo   17 years ago

    Heh… I can think of some creative places for the skin cellphone.

  5. Neu Mejican   17 years ago

    Joshua Corning,

    Agreed.
    Except when they are just cosmetic.

    One of these guys had magnets implanted under his finger tips to give him a way to “sense” magnetically (really just augmented tactile functioning, but I wonder how the brain would learn to integrate the additional information).

    His experiment failed due to a severe infection, but the idea was interesting, I thought.

  6. joshua corning   17 years ago

    I want my neural implants!

    Screw that I want nano red blood cells which allow me to stay 2 hours under water and run a mile on only one breath of air.

  7. Neu Mejican   17 years ago

    With a brief browse, the cellphone tattoo seems the most likely to take off first. Although the EEG game controller has promise. Similar systems have been demonstrated to work with paralysis patients.

  8. Warren   17 years ago

    I want my neural implants!

    Here here! Bring on The Jack!

  9. toxic   17 years ago

    Is it ironic that a transhuman mag is doing honest to god paper distribution in this wireless age, or has Alanis Morissette corrupted my brain?

  10. Just Plain Brian   17 years ago

    Is it ironic that a transhuman mag is doing honest to god paper distribution in this wireless age, or has Alanis Morissette corrupted my brain?

    The latter – it’s a PDF file, I don’t think there are any dead trees involved.

  11. zoltan   17 years ago

    Screw that I want nano red blood cells which allow me to stay 2 hours under water and run a mile on only one breath of air.

    I’d rather have a direct net hookup and interface with my brain a la Accelerando.

    And, Warren, I welcome the Jack too, though I think that would be a neural impairment.

  12. Blue   17 years ago

    I wonder how our obsession with race will change when we can get patch that changes our skin color.

    Expect junior high schools to switch from Nigerian Brown to Swedish Pale then to Thai Beige on a weekly basis.

  13. robc   17 years ago

    How long before wireheads* are criminals?

    *known space version

  14. Kwix   17 years ago

    What, did Ron Bailey loose his gig?? Since when did KMW become the transhumanist blogger ’round these parts. Does Joe the Plumber approve?

  15. Warty   17 years ago

    I want my goddamn skullgun already.

  16. Kant feel Pietzsche   17 years ago

    When Post-Darwin Hedonic Engineering is outlawed, only outlaws will be Post-Darwin Hedonically Engineered

  17. Kant feel Pietzsche   17 years ago

    And I, for one, am completely with Mrs. Ron (Tater-salad) White: Let’s find the genetic marker that makes semen taste like chololate.

  18. brotherben   17 years ago

    Isn’t eye bling painful? Isn’t that why the bukkake ladies wear shades?

  19. Voros McCracken   17 years ago

    I’m waiting for the laser beam eyes and the D-cups of justice.

  20. economist   17 years ago

    “How will our obsession with race change when we have patches that can change skin color?”
    They will be banned after they are used in affirmative action fraud. Duh.

  21. wizard of oz books   15 years ago

    With many new announcement about the wizard of oz movies in the news, you might want to consider starting to obtain Wizard of Oz book series either as collectible or investment at RareOzBooks.com.

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