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 2: Assuming Direct Control

For the second installment in this series, I’m going to take two things that can’t possibly be more different: hunting cats and jewelry. Unless you like making jewelry out of the bones of endangered beasts, because nothing says opulence like destroying entire ecosystems.