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Week in science faces our cyborg future

Medical science fiction, green power moves forward, and Cambrian worm sucking.
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Why do we keep falling in love with cyborgs? [Video]

Genres / Sci Fi : io9 (3 years ago)

The allure of the cyborg is so widely-accepted that it's become a cliche in science fiction, but people rarely ask why. Doesn't it seem a little strange that humans are so powerfully attracted to synthetic versions of themselves? Mo... Read Post

Discover The Future Of Medical Science [Medical Science (fiction)]

Genres / Sci Fi : io9 (4 years ago)

When it comes to future depictions of careers, things are always rather unfairly weighed towards the law enforcement angle - We've seen Robocop, Judge Dredd, Minority Report and even Future Cop. But who talks about the medical profe... Read Post

10 of the Weirdest Futurist Scenarios for the Evolution of Humanity [Daily 10]

Genres / Sci Fi : io9 (11 months ago)

When science fiction writers and futurists imagine humans of the far future, they never think our descendants are going to look exactly the same as we do now. After all, we'll have access to powerful tools to turn us into cyborgs an... Read Post


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