cybernetics
The Most Beautiful and Terrifying Predictions of Post-Humanity In Video Games
From 'Call of Duty' to 'Deus Ex', augmentation either enhances our humanity or erodes it.
How 'Civilization: Beyond Earth' Plans to Explore Post Humanism
Cybernetics, body hacking, memory uploading, and other transhumanist topics play a huge role in the upcoming game.
The New Bionic Sports of the Future Transhumanist Olympics
Some futurists think that in just decades, humans will sprint faster than horses, people will shoot guns with near-perfect accuracy using bionic eyes, and athletes will swim entire races without taking a breath.
Make It Wearable Part 4: Becoming Superhuman
Part four in our doc series investigates the ways in which wearable tech is making our bodies smarter, faster, and stronger.
Let's Talk About Internet-Connected Cyberflora
Researchers are wiring plants to harness their intelligence and use them as organic biosensors.
Scientists Are Convinced Mind Transfer Is the Key to Immortality
Now we can add Stephen Hawking to the list of prominent scientists touting a cybernetic post-mortal human race.
Super Mario Meets Bitcoin in the Augmented Reality of "1 Up Fever"
I caught up with the self-described "small Italian girl" behind the augmented-reality game in which you snag bitcoins, Super Mario-style.
What It's Like to Be a Cyborg, As Explained by a Cyborg
An interview with Neil Harbisson, the cyborg who thinks everyone else should be one, too.
How Humans Will Respond to Immortality: An Interview with Philosopher John Fischer
Fischer received a $5 million grant to lead a project studying mortality. Motherboard captured an hour of his thoughts for all time.
Smart Drugs and Cybernetics Are Creating a Superhuman Workforce
Imagine becoming superhuman. Or, at the very least, becoming superhumanly good at your job. Imagine a drug that would give you total focus, total composure, genius-level clarity of thought, and the ability to stay up and in the zone for two days...
How Smart Drugs and Cybernetics Could Create a Superhuman Workforce
Imagine that those technologies used by the military to augment soldiers are turning you into a super-worker capable of moving ahead in your profession, and up the career ladder with beyond-human, almost Übermenschen abilities.
The Smartphone of the Future Is You
"Cyborg" is a fluid term. It just means a biological something that's boosted by artificial enhancements of some kind, electronic or mechanical or robotic. So, the kid with the "3D printed exoskeleton":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/8/6/3d-printing...