As technology advances, are we destined to become cyborgs with mechanical replacements for lost or damaged limbs? Or will we become creatures of the mind with smart pills to enhance our cognitive abilities?

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Could a cyborg future become our reality? [via]

Its funny that the author of this article states these scenarios like they aren’t already realities.

My new standard of cool: when I’m hanging out with you, I never see your phone ever ever ever.

— Phone etiquette and the end of the individual [via]

this is it. i’m done with the whole black people racism thing in America. this is motherfucking it. enough is e-fucking-nough. a fucking browser for black people? its now fair game to start white-people anything, white entertainment television, whitebird the browser for white people. i cannot express my rage enough.

— withinluwithoutlu’s response to Blackbird Is A Custom Browser For African Americans Built On Top Of Mozilla.html

Uh.. is this a joke? Or is this denial that white people are considered to be the primary audience for most media/products in this country? I think this is especially true when it comes to tech products.

Now, how could one describe what they are truly are, independently of any ‘projection’? By using another list taken from a different repertory that is projected surreptitiously onto the actants? For example, technomorphisms: the whale is an ‘automaton’, a simple ‘animal-machine’; the robot, too, is merely a simple machine. Man [sic] himself, after all, far from having feelings to project, is only a biochemical automaton.

— “Aramis, or the Love of Technology” by Bruno Latour [via]

More than any other factor, it has been Barack Obama’s grasp of the central place of Internet-driven social networking that has propelled his campaign for the Democratic nomination into a seemingly unassailable lead over Hillary Clinton. Her campaign has been so 20th-century. His has been of the century we’re in.

— The Obama Connection

Dr. Bostrom doesn’t pretend to know which of these hypotheses is more likely, but he thinks none of them can be ruled out. “My gut feeling, and it’s nothing more than that,” he says, “is that there’s a 20 percent chance we’re living in a computer simulation.

— Our Lives, Controlled From Some Guy’s Couch