I want a jetpack, too.

Sep 11, 2009 15:28


As a kid, I was promised (or warned, depending on the source) that the next phase of technological evolution was human/machine integration. Wires in the brain, chips in the blood, all that other jazz.

And so I ask you, people of the future, where is my eye-camera? Does the scientific establishment not realize that I live with a beautiful wife, two ( Read more... )

envirobabble, felis domesticus, leora

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wilowisp September 11 2009, 20:56:35 UTC
Ok, so I know this technique isn't anything new, but for some reason, your title choice really stuck out to me. It's a title that is an addendum to the substance of the writing as opposed to a descriptor or poetic summary of what is to come. This reverse chronological writing made thought sparks in my brain right now, even though I have seen it before, and done it myself. And maybe the English majors of the world are all over this kinda stuff, but it's a new bauble for me to contemplate.

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half_double September 11 2009, 22:00:45 UTC
I'm sure there's a name for it, too, the knowing of which would make me extra geek-awesome.

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Re: *cynical about science today* half_double September 11 2009, 21:54:13 UTC
But what if I want to exert more control over the world? I'm probably definitely not cleared for that! Waaah.

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purplesquirrel September 11 2009, 21:06:35 UTC
half_double September 11 2009, 21:52:54 UTC
Hrmmm. I ought, perhaps, to have specified that I do not wish to lose either of my real eyes in the pursuit of this endeavor.

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discoflamingo September 12 2009, 18:04:36 UTC
What if it were built into your glasses? Would that do?

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megspencer September 13 2009, 14:20:32 UTC
I read about this not long ago. We're getting there! http://www.c00lstuff.com/798/Japanese_Robotic_Exoskeleton/

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