Global Future: Creating Gods Among Us?

I had seriously intended to restart Tech Gestalts today, because I have a backlog of ideas that just grows faster than I can weed them out. Or move over to gaming news and maybe talk about the Origins Games Fair and Shadowrun Fifth Edition (seriously, buy the damn game. It’s awesome and you want it.) But at the last minute, I heard about the transhumanists at Global Future 2045. For those who don’t know, GF2045 is a conference founded by Russian businessman Dmitry Itskov, best known for his involvement with the 2045 Initiative, a program aimed at human immortality by 2045.

Tech Gestalts 4: Welcome Back, Welome Back, Welcome Back

This did not happen. Unfortunately.

It’s a new year, and more importantly a new Sixth World.  Now, you may think that means an asteroid plummeting through the atmosphere to burn the flesh from our bones and incinerate our comic book collections, or some kind of New-Age hippy stuff that I’m sure I’d be interested in if I still possessed a single ray of optimism. Or maybe it’s all a load of malarkey. Meh.

One thing it does mean is that we are back at the Datahaven, and we are going to hit the ground running like our (unfortunate) hiatus never happened. So without further ado….

WAR ZEPPELINS OF SCIENCY DEATH

(and driving)

Tech Gestalts 3: The Matrix is Here

This week, we’ve got three tech-toys that go together (at least in my deranged imagination), to create a world so much worse than the World Without Privacy I talked about before: a world without free will, at least for the unlucky SOB’s that are dumb enough to volunteer for this crap. Or it may just let you pilot a super-shark through hurricanes, cutting wicked aquatic kick-flips of toothy awesome.

Tech Gestalts 1: Hack the Planet

After a meatspace hiatus that has given the Datahaven a burst of new life and creativity (and 4 new staff members, covering everything from local tech news to miniature gaming), we’re back with the first of a weekly series: Tech Gestalts.

DNA Data Storage: World Without Piracy or Privacy

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Last Friday, a team of what I only imagine are mad-scientists at Harvard figured out how to store computer data on DNA strands. Before you start worrying, George “Captain Chromosome” Church and the Binary Brigade didn’t use a living creature. Instead, they managed to attach fake human DNA to a microchip to create a storage device they claim could fit the entirety of the Internet on a flash drive.