In Second Life il robot potrebbe assumere forme diverse dalle sembianze umane. Gli studi sull'intelligenza artificiale al contempo stanno favorendo la costruzione di robot maggiormente efficaci, efficienti e autonomi.

Il cyborg può essere letto come metafora di Second Life? Anche SL è un ibrido tra quello che portiamo dal mondo reale e quello che viene dal nostro immaginario. Il cyborg è un ibrido tra corpo umano e corpo meccanico.  A complicare il quadro vi è il fatto che la nuova robotica strettamente connessa con l'informatica che tende a sfumare il confine tra natura e meccanica, artificio e natura, tecnica e biologia.

Se ci pensate su SL non c'è una separazione tra noi e la nostra rappresentazione di noi, il nostro noi mediatizzato. Se siete dei culturi di Star Trek conoscete sicuramente i Borg ibridi di meccanica e biologia umana. I nuovi robot sono infatti degli ibridi tra organismi biologici e macchine, un esempio filmico è Terminator. Questa ibridicità sta portando a configurare degli innesti meccanici nei corpi umani, per sostituire arti o pezzi del corpo umano deteriorati e inservibili. Nelle stesse applicazioni dei videogiochi sempre più spesso si sta studiando l'effetto di possibili collegamenti neuronali tra il giocatore e la macchina fisica connessa al gioco.

Merci à Yoshiyuki Sankai, designer et directeur de Cyberdyne technology. Depuis hier, les consommateurs japonais peuvent louer la fameuse combinaison-robot multipliant de dix fois les forces humaines, le HAL ( Hybrid Assistive Limb). Cette invention pourra fortement servir les handicapés et les personnes ayant des difficultés à marcher. Ce bijou pesant 22 kilos vous est offert pour la coquine somme de 2200$ par mois. Commercialisation mondiale pour très bientôt. Magnifique !

O evento já começou mal, de várias lutas anunciadas com antecedência foram canceladas, o mal da FEG o contagiou. Para piorar horas antes de começar o main event ficou ameaçado e não aconteceu.

Infelizmente o undercard não passou, só passou um HL da Cris Cyborg, que não dá para dizer nada demais, analisar só por HL é muito perigoso.

Nicolae Cury venceu Jorge Bouchet por TKO Round 1 – apenas destacar que o brasileiro perdeu a luta, mas na verdade não conhecia ninguém.

Bryan Hamade venceu David Gomez por finalização Round 1 – ninguém se importa.

Mikey Gomez venceu Lorenzo Borgomeo por finalização Round 2 – Gomez treina na Gracie Barra de Orlando.

Conor Heun venceu Edson Berto por TKO Round 2 – ainda bem que Conor lutou, pois a luta antes iniciada não dava ânimo de ver. Por ter uma categoria fraquíssima, Heun já merece uma oportunidade de lutar pela cinta, mas como a política do Elite não é priveligiar os melhores, é capaz do Heun demorar a lutar pela cinta.

Cris Cyborg venceu Yoko Takahashi na decisão unânime – todos esperavam um novo nocaute, mas não veio, porém o que foi escrito nos PbP é que ela dominou totalmente a luta e logo lutara pelo cinturão.

Benji Radach venceu Murilo Ninja por TKO Round 2 – festival de KD sobre Ninja, o brasileiro se encontrava no chão, mas na trocação era atraso atrás de atraso. Era uma luta sem favoritos, ambos desempenham função de lutadores de segundo plano na corrida pelo cinturão. Nota 7.

Gina Carano venceu Kelly Kobold na decisão unânime – em certas horas uma luta chata, porém mostrou que apesar de não levar o MMA a sério, ela é muito técnica e não será uma presa fácil para a Cris. Nota 5.

Andrei Arlovski venceu Roy Nelson por KO Round 2 – a luta se dividiu de dois jeitos, Nelson descansado e Nelson cansado. O 1R Roy ficou no 100kg e trabalhando alguns golpes, assim ganhando facilmente a luta, mas o juiz insistiu em atrapalhar a vida do americano. No 2R Nelson cansou e Andrei conseguiu lutar e nocautear. Nota 4.

Jake Shields venceu Paul Daley por finalização Round 2 – resumindo: fora do UFC não tem ninguém para ganhar do Shields. Nota 7.

Seth Petruzelli venceu Kimbo Slice por TKO Round 1 – Shamrock fez Shame, Rosa era melhor que Seth, mas escolheram um cara que foi finalizado pelo McGee. Enfim tava previsto um grande circo, mas não foi isso que aconteceu (para o bem do MMA) e Kimbo sucumbiu num soco. Não tem como dar nota na luta, pois ela não houve.

O evento – lutas não muito empolgantes, confusão no main event e isso com certeza fez com que muitos perdessem um pouco o interesse pelo evento. Nota 5.

The future world, 2019 LA, of Blade Runner is a cosmopolitan “global village”. This is communicated by the use of bi-lingual advertising signs: Coca-cola sits amongst neon Japanese symbols. Although Coca-cola is an American symbol that is saturated world wide the use of it sat against the Japanese iconography communicates the sense of lost identity. While Deckard sits eating his Japanese food two “Blade Runner” cops stand behind him, and although we are in LA they speak in a foreign language to Deckard who only understands English. He must get the noodle stand owner to translate for him. The fact that an agent of the central authority, the Police, speaks in Japanese rather than English in LA signifies the state of globalisation. The identity that is lost is the local provincial aspects of countries. Instead of an American or Japanese culture we see a cross-breed intertextual mix that produces it own new identity. As I mentioned in my previous post concerning the Postmodern nature of Blade Runner this concept of intertextuality and pastiche culture is important in communicating a distinct future world. Blade Runner asks questions about individuality and authenticity [I will write a post about Blade Runner with the aim to explore the postmodern concept of cyborg ] and the intertextual nature of Blade Runner creates a future world where people have become replicants of imagery and images that “used” to signify something individual but now have become tired. Instead of Deckard being an individual he has become a “replicant” of the film noir detective in his trench coat and hard-boiled character. Similarly Rachel has become the prototypical Femme Fatal, dressed in dark, commanding screen presence and continuously smoking.

The future world social structures are communicated in Blade Runner by the opposition of setting, as in Total Recall and Running Man. The internal shots of the headquarters of the Tyrell corp. are luscious and extraordinary while the city streets are dark and rain is continuously falling. As in Total Recall the opposition of two colours can communicate an atmosphere that coincides with the location. In Total Recall the use of red and whites opposed each other and communicated a mood and sense of place. In Blade Runner the use of dark-blues communicate a sense of run-down dirty atmosphere while golds and yellows create a warm glow that surrounded the upper echelons of the Tyrell corp.

Cassern is about a cyborg who rises against the robotic armies that have subjugated all of humanity.

Source: AniDB

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FITC es una compañia canadiense que organiza eventos alrededor del mundo acerca de nuevos conceptos de diseño y tecnología, que inspiren, eduquen y sean innovadores involucrando a los mejores diseñadores de medios creativos alrededor del mundo. 

"El primer paso para la producción de un evento es escogiendo una ciudad con pasión por las artes interactivas" -Shawn Pucknell (Fundador FITC and new media guru)

Y lo ha desmostrado con eventos alrededor del mundo:

Canada: Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Winnipeg
Norte America: Chicago, Los Angeles
Internacional: Amsterdam, Korea 

El primer evento hecho en el 2002 llamado "Flash in the Can" (refiriendose a Flash de Adobe), enfocada en especifico en este software trajo un explosión de nuevos medios interactivos como plataformas de tecnología para celulares, instalaciones de arte, juegos interactivos y gráficos. Siguiendolo con un evento en Toronto "Flagship Festival" : The Design + Technology Festival, uno de los mas grandes e importantes eventos, donde se reunieron de alrededor del mundo los mejores diseñadores y developers, tratando las tres áreas del medio interactivo:

Creatividad. Explorar la creatividad como un proceso personal. 

Técnico. Nuevos desarrollos de medios interactivos involucrando nuevas tendencias en la tecnología.

Negocios. Descubrir nuevas soluciones practicas para los nuevos retos del futuro y que te traeran de beneficio como empresa. 

Sin duda este macroevento involucra todos los aspectos importantes para nuevos medios interactivos. En México sin duda falta que se explore mas este campo que aún esta en crecimiento, ya lo había mencionado en un post pasado, existe mucho talento mexicano que se tiene que explotar, las grandes empresas son las únicas que invierten en medios interactivos "innovadores". Cómo es posible que el 80% de las pequeñas y medianas empresas no tengan .com !!!! Esto es un dato que da miedo. Los medios interactivos tienen que dejar de ser un lujo en México, concientisar y empujar a que las personas sean mas arriesgadas, ya que sin riesgos no hay innovación, y sin innovación no hay avances.

FITC,  Amsterdam 2008

Inspire.Educate.Challenge.

Peace. 

DBS

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Próximos eventos:

FITC: Seúl, Korea. Octubre 16 del 2008

Pause: Ideas in Motion, NY.  Noviembre 10-11 del 2008. 

LAflashapallozastock III, Venice Beach, Ca. Diciembre 6 del 2008.

FITC: Design. Technology. Cool Shit, Amsterdam. Febrero 22 - 24 del 2009. 

Para más información pueden consultar en el website www.fitc.ca

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Personal Note: This technology could of course be used for great good...and sadly also could be used for horribly evil purposes.

Best wishes,

Donald Ryles PhD

By Pratima Harigunani / Source: Ciol.com

World's first ever Cyborg, Professor Kevin Warwick, Department of Cybernetics, University of Reading, is just six to eight years away from another implant, this time a brain implant.

This experiment would be in the area of bi-directional communication. Currently the investigation process is on for brain-computer links, in particular an implant into the brain, which acts bi-directionally.

As Warwick tells, "This probably will mean retraining neurons within the brain to alter their basic functioning. The main reason here would be for bi-directional communication. Clearly this is different to space projects. I believe it is far more important as it really changes what it means to be human."

In the year 1998, Professor Kevin Warwick and his team at the department of Cybernetics, University of Reading had underwent an operation to surgically implant a silicon chip transponder in his forearm that allowed a computer to monitor him as he moved through halls and offices of the Department of Cybernetics using a unique identifying signal emitted by the implanted chip and also allowed him to operate doors, lights, heaters and other computers without lifting a finger.

The second phase of the experiment Project Cyborg 2.0 got underway in March 2002 with an aim of studying how a new implant could send signals back and forth between Warwick's nervous system and a computer.

His team is presently busy with the rat brain project, a biological robot controlled by a blob of rat brain created by the scientists. The project is at an interesting turn as it moves on to study memories vis-à-vis brain.

"We are now about to investigate how memories manifest themselves in the brain – hopefully this will give us some leverage in dealing with Alzheimer's disease," shares Warwick.

The project entails a wheeled machine wirelessly linked to a bundle of neurons kept at body temperature in a sterile cabinet while signals from the "brain" allow the robot to steer left or right to avoid objects in its path.

Similar experiments about developing robots with living brains made from cultured cells are underway with other scientists across the world too like the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, US and the SymbioticA Fish And Chips project or the 'whiskered' rat robot project on touch technology by at multinational BIOTACT project, with research teams like Weizmann Institute of Science's Neurobiology Department.

Professor Kevin Warwick who pioneered the merging of biology and robotics by conducting the first "cyborg" experiments on him is upbeat about this one. "The rat brain project is presently extremely successful – we are able to grow a brain of 100,000 brain cells and we have it driving a robot around".

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Ever since I was a little kid, I would have this weird vision of me being "not human." And I obviously didn't believe it was true. I'd imagine it as if I was a robot, but I didn't know it. Maybe robot's not the proper term. Maybe cyborg, or something.

Anyway, last night I was thinking how great of a story that could be. What if a teenager somehow, found out he wasn't really his parents child, physically, but he was a cyborg.

I know, I'm a little out there, but this is just my sci-fi side. LOL

-Brian Eldridge

Todays release are 4 new avatar sets! Todays theme is... Cyborgs! The avatar set includes: Skin, Shape, Eyes, Hair & all attachments shown in the Avatar picture below! Also, for people who want a cyborg skin & don't need the entire pack the skins are also sold individually! Check them out in the body section!

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This was a fantastic anniversary issue and a real treat to any fans of the Titans. We look back at different era of the titans history as well as reminisce on the life of Bart Allen, all along setting up the new arc and the return of the Titans of Tommorrow...John's best arc on this book. So I am glad they are coming back. McKeever's run has started off with a bang! Don't you just love that cover!

Teen Titans (Volume 3) #51
Written by Sean McKeever
Art by Ale Garza

Not sure what to think of this...it's not bad and I like the hints to the future of the Teen Titans...and the idea that Bart and Connor will be alive in the future. But I think the art makes it less enjoyable....I really miss McKone and Tony Daniel's work on this title.

Teen Titans (Volume 3) #52
Written by Sean McKeever
Art by Jamal Igle

Awesome ending spread there...it is fun to see these glimpses of possible future titans. This is actually the second time I have read this arc and I must say it reads much better this time around. Not to mention Igle's art is fantastic this issue.

Teen Titans (Volume 3) #53
Written by Sean McKeever
Art by Eddy Barrows

The Titans Army is pretty bad ass....I love that Cassandra Cain is the Batwoman of the future and that Misfit is Huntress (and still yelling Dark Vengeance!) but the coloring was quite off on her hair, along with Aquawoman's. Anyways, there have been way too many artists on this one arc.

Teen Titans (Volume 3) #54
Written by Sean McKeever
Art by Eddy Barrows, Joe Prado, and Greg Tocchini

Okay who else is really looking forward to a Miss Martian/Robin romance. Much better then Wonder Girl and Robin which seems kindve incestuous to me and it would parallel the relationship between Starfire and Nightwing. Anyways, this was a nice ending to this issue. I like that Blue Beetle, Supergirl, and the Ravager are the ones who will one day oppose the Titans Army. I have to say this arc was not as good as John's Titans of Tomorrow arc....but it was still well-written and fun.

Teen Titans (Volume 3) #55

Written by Sean McKeever
Art by Jamal Igle

I liked this in-between story. Robin and Wonder Girl end their romance....thank God. And Supergirl leaves the team, sad because I was actually liking her on the team. Poor Kid Devil is treated like crap throughout this issue...even by Robin. I wish Ingle was the regular artist on this title.

Teen Titans (Volume 3) #56
Written by Sean McKeever
Art by Eddy Barrows

Okay I don't know why Robin and everyone are being so mean to Kid Devil...it seems kinda out of character. I am intrigued by the Terror Titans and this issue had a lot of funny moments, especailly when Kid Devil throws the party at the tower. McKeever's run on this title is seriously underrated.

Teen Titans (Volume 3) #57
Written by Sean McKeever
Art by Eddy Barrows

I like that Ravager is worried about Kid Devil....but Wonder Girl really comes off as a bitch in this issue. I mean she has a right to not completely trust Rose but come on. The ending was pretty crazy....I am not sure what happened to the tower.

Teen Titans (Volume 3) #58
Written by Sean McKeever
Art by Carlos Rodriguez

I really liked the art this issue but why the hell can't Eddy Barrows stay for more then a couple issues! This story was great because it features mostly Miss Martian who really deserves more attention as she is a great character. She has the battling her dark side aspect of Raven and the naivety of Starfire that makes her the perfect fit for the Titans. Good issue.

Teen Titans (Volume 3) #59
Written by Sean McKeever
Art by Eddy Barrows

Clock King is pretty scary and the Dark Side Club is just as so. This issue was good but I feel this arc is a little long altogether. I think Barrows's art reached an all-time high with this issue. Very nice stuff.
Teen Titans (Volume 3) #60
Written by Sean McKeever
Art by Eddy Barrows

Looks like Ravager is leaving the team...no thanks to Wonder Girl's bitchiness....although the more I think about it the more I realize I would be hesitant about having a known killer on the team as well. This Terror Titans arc was good and it's always fun to see new villains introduced for the Titans but it ran a little long.

Teen Titans (Volume 3) #61
Written by Sean McKeever
Art by Carlos Rodriguez

This was a sweet issue highlighting the relationship between Blue Beetle and welll....Red Devil. Kid Devil switches his name to Red Devil in this issue. I am not sure that I like the name...Kid Devil just flows better but I can deal with it. I like the bond formed between the two reluctant team mates. Good stuff.

Teen Titans (Volume 3) #57
Written by Sean McKeever
Art by Eddy Barrows

Okay that was just fucking incredibly disturbing!!! I expected a sweet story about a cute god instead I got that before he transformed and slaughtered Wendy and Marvin. Not going to lie, I was pissed after reading this the first time. Miss Martian leaves the team and Wendy and Marvin who have been totally underused are now killed. What the hell right?! This seems like a Dan Didio idea to me. But on the second read-through, it's actually pretty good and I am hoping McKeever has a good reason for killing off Wendy and Marvin, if they are in fact dead.

Teen Titans (Volume 3) #63
Written by Sean McKeever
Art by Eddy Barrows and Allan Goldman

This issue was very decompressed...I don't feel like much happened accept Bombshell fought the military and the Teen Titans and Wonder Girl has a headache. What the hell! I am glad to see that Wendy is alive, I wish I could say the same for Marvin though. I have the feeling they are setting Wendy up to become a metahuman/hero. I am not sure. Miss Martian is on the cover for some reason despite not being o nthe team anymore.

It has taken a whole year - but London mayor Boris Johnson has finally got his own back on Arnold Schwarzenegger.

As he was waiting to address last year's Tory conference via video link, the California Governor seemed highly amused by Mr Johnson's speaking style.

In a a clip which became a hit on YouTube, he can be heard whispering to aides about Mr Johnson "fumbling".

But now the London mayor has had the last the laugh, describing "Arnie" as a "monosyllabic Austrian cyborg".

BBC NEWS | Politics | Boris terminates 'cyborg' Arnie.

The perfect way to start a Monday morning. I do, however, think it's a little early to claim that Boris has had the last laugh. There's no telling what the monosyllabic Austrian cyborg might do next.

Not to worry, though, I'm sure Boris will be more than a match... as long as it doesn't get physical...

© 2008 Gary William Murning

• “Ummm, is it even possible to finish all this work in time?”
• “Why didn’t I plan ahead and get this done earlier?”
• “Am I even writing English anymore?”
• “I am so tired; can’t I sleep now?”
• “What happens if I DON’T finish all of this stuff?”
• “Isn’t it just going to get worse?”

While I did manage to pound it all out, I can’t even guess at what suffered in terms of quality.  I put my proposal in my chair’s paws (Top Dawg) on Wednesday afternoon so he could take it home and review it before signing off on it.  He found one typo and proclaimed the proposal otherwise “fine” in a very dry and unrevealing tone.  That’s all I’ve got in the way of feedback for now.

I knew better than to expect my “A” game in a week where volume of work is so heavy, but nonetheless, it is a little embarrassing to get caught producing things which are not up to one’s usual standards.  Case in point, I administered my second on-line quiz this week (no thanks to you D2L-- you continue to be an overwhelmingly RIDICULOUS program and I have my eye on you).  Because I wrote the questions and set it up the day before it went live, I was rushed and didn’t proofread.

A couple of typos (three!) is not a big deal, but I fracked up royally by setting the answer key incorrectly on one of the questions, resulting in several (ok, three) panicked students contacting me.  It’s all fixed and amended, but embarrassing, no?  I wish I was presenting myself in a more polished fashion, one in which I could create an impression (illusion?) of infallibility.  There goes that wish...

But all that aside, I am just so very glad that the week is over, that I am still standing (though I hurt, really, and am worried that treating myself this way is not good for my health).  When the assistant chair wandered in and tried to make small-talk with me on Wednesday, I realized that the sound of my own voice was very alien to me as I’d barely spoken to anyone for two days (barring phone conversations with the ever supportive Mr. Rottweiler, and an excited C. who shared the news of her engagement over the phone with me on Monday night-- HUZZAH!).  I had definitely barely spoken to anyone in person for two days.

On Thursday night, as I staggered out of my afternoon class and started dealing with worried quiz takers, I decided to see if Schnauzer and her husband were free for dinner and drinks.  She was happy that I crawled out of my muck of work, as we seem to be on track with a regular habit of going out on Thursday nights, and she thought we wouldn’t make it this week as a result of my zombified state and upcoming travel.  (I caught a 5:10 AM flight and am on the plane right at this very moment).  Though tired, I wanted to speak to someone just to feel like a social animal again (no offense to my computers-- but I was sick of being a cyborg).  We had a nice dinner which, incidentally, ended abruptly when some genius sitting at the bar tried to light a cigarette with their friend’s pepper spray, which they mistook for a lighter.  Coughing and sputtering with our lips and eyes on fire, we stumbled out of the restaurant and into the night.  So my fellow academic denizens, I am tired, wrung out, a little chagrined, and, well, slightly peppery.

Erle Frayne Argonza

Magandang hapon! Good afternoon from Manila!

As you read this piece, please take a cursory glance at yourself. For you are among the last humans of the non-chipped prototype. We non-chipped humans’ lifeline will soon end, as we are only co-terminus with ‘late’ capitalism.  

‘Late’ capitalism will crash down into total destruction. As already advanced in some previous articles, ‘late’ capitalism or ‘the system’ is now DEAD. No more can this system be revived, it is beyond repair. What you see, feel, smell, sense right now as ‘the system’ is merely a semblance of a once thriving and growing system of post-war interventionist capitalism, whose international trade conduct was partly regulated by fixed exchange rate and a gold standard. The reality you see today is only illusory, ‘virtual reality’ of a once mighty and envious system. To repeat, IT IS DEAD!

This terminal phase of capitalism will be marked by aggressive attempts to revive it. During these aggressive attempts (aggressive = World War III, synarchy, destruction of nations) the prototype of the future human is being experimented on in laboratories of the North. That prototype will be constructed, based on the principles of Phase 3 Cybernetics. To familiarize yourself with cybernetic’s phases, note this briefer:

Phase I: Perfecting and packaging systems theory in simplified form, made the computer possible.

Phase II: Integration theory made possible the integration of the computer to the machine, producing (a) automation and (b) artificial intelligence or AI. Simultaneous with nano-technology.

Phase III: The machine-human organism divide will be broken, thus enabling the creation of the ‘cyborg’ or cybernetic organism. This is integration of mathematics, systems theory, bioinformatics, biotechnology, infotech, sociobiomedicine,  psychology, and bio-physics.

Phase IV: Further advancements in cybernetic principles will enable the infusion of intelligence into machines. Cyber-sentinels (machine cops, armies) for Earth and space mission purposes will arise. These prototypes can fly space ships across vast spaces, and conduct R&D in heavenly bodies of choice destination.

Let me stop at that point. Cybernetics can still go a long way, up to that point where computers as huge as a 3-million square mile country can be created. That’s as big as Canada, or China, or the USA of today. Bigger and bigger machines (robots) will be created which, incidentally, will be more unstable…But let me stop here.   

In its future revived form, capitalism will take off as the new-generation ‘technotronic’ capitalism. Prior to the full galvanization of the new system, a transition period will be experienced. During that period, which could last for a quarter of a century, the micro-chipping of humans will have been perfected. That microchipping or simply chipping of humans will enable the production of the hybrid human variety.

That hybrid variety is in fact being experimented today. The Verizon Corp, a gigantic company based in the USA, has been given the franchise to research, develop, and install (using known biomedical operations, whether surgery or mere intravenous means) prototypes called the VeriChip. Couples of rationalizations were advanced in order to justify the VeriChip mandate. Among the supposed advantages are that of (a) getting easily tracked so that cuts down the possibility of retrieval if one gets lost along the way home or travel to work, and (b) tracking or monitoring one’s health and wellness condition.

As early as the last quarter of the 20^th century, the divide between sanity and madness, between ‘good’ reasons and demonic reasons, were already shattered. Rational economics gave way to mad economics, and so on. Likewise was shattered the divide between the visible benefits of chipping humans and the invisible benefits to the ‘new world order’ of controlling humans. Do take note of these developments, as we’re moving in future contexts where rationality and madness’ synthesis will be perfected even more. Integration theory works wondrously for the oligarchic system, remember.

Those chips that will be implanted in you, in case you are among those who volunteered, can indeed be for your personal benefits. But never make the presumption that the chips won’t be used to at least build an intelligence dossier on you. The information mega-databases are already existing today in the USA and EU, so right at this juncture it is facile to keep track of people at least. How those chips will be convertible for purposes of mutating you into a Manchurian Candidate or MC is the current R&D problem of the scientists involved in them.

In a post-War (World War III) scenario, when nations will have been abolished save for some few exceptions, more ‘final solution’ to the demographic dilemma (of ‘overpopulation’) will be executed, thus bringing down population to probably as low as 2 Billion people by 2050. Remember that World War III will take as long as 30 years, it could be a new 30 Years War, so if this coming war will begin in 2009, then expect it to end around 2039.

Now, what is important for that figure of 2 Billion world population, which the global oligarchy has already projected, is that it is a more manageable, controllable population. Chipping all 2 billion people remnants of the old population will be very easy by then. Part of the conditions for reconstruction, reparations, and succeeding prosperous life for the individual would be to chip him/her.  

Thus shall be born the population of MCs, who will be quasi-autonomous individuals. The MC can still think for himself/herself, though many facets of the MC’s behavior will be modified. And, behavior modification will be enabled chiefly precisely because of the chips inside one’s body, thus making trainings and/or capacity building less costly. Life span will also increase, as the chips will have the effect of monitoring ailments quickly, and intervention will be easier than today. Primary health care will be done right on the computer and will be quick, instead of the tedious and protracted processes that we clinically undergo today.

However that hybrid prototype, which we will label HYBRID for simplification, will only be the transitory prototype as the ‘final prototype’ will be perfected in the labs. That final prototype, the CYBORG (1^st generation), will be a radically different variety altogether from the hybrids whom they will replace. Being one whose personality, chromosomal structure, and capability grids will be fully programmed via advanced computer prototypes and advanced biomedical-sociobehavioral expertise and intervention methods, the CYBORG will be one of longer life span (past 100 years), longer productivity (at least 75 years of productive utility), higher intelligence (mental, emotional, related intelligences all programmed), higher knowledge-absorptive capacity (mental files will be erasable, new knowledge can be uploaded to the brain via computers), and better health (lessening or eliminating health care costs) than the HYBRID.

So, fellows on Earth, let’s better face it, WE ARE ALL PHASE-OUT PROTOTYPES. Let’s better accept that now. Yes, capitalism can survive as already explained before, but look at where capitalism is going. In the era of full ‘technotronic’ capitalism, you will be a total chattel of the system. I don’t mean YOU today who will die in some decades ahead without the chip, I mean the YOU as the people after the war reconstruction.

For those pro-capitalist folks of the world, please don’t grieve for the death of ‘late’ capitalism. Yes, capitalism in its present form is now DEAD, but a new form will rise and replace it, thus rendering capitalism like unto a phoenix. As an ending, are you ready to be chipped today? VeriChip is waiting for thee.

[23 August 2008, Quezon City, MetroManila]