{"id":35514,"date":"2012-01-02T02:43:34","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T02:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/01\/02\/realcleverscience-i-am-now-filming-your-bionic\/"},"modified":"2017-07-01T21:11:37","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T21:11:37","slug":"realcleverscience-i-am-now-filming-your-bionic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/01\/02\/realcleverscience-i-am-now-filming-your-bionic\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/realcleverscience.tumblr.com\/post\/15130978825\/eyeborg-documentary\">realcleverscience<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cI am now filming your bionic hand with my bionic eye.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>These words have been uttered &#8211; and aren\u2019t science fiction.<\/p>\n<p>Some of you may remember an awesome and startling video I posted in August for the video game, <strong>Deus Ex: Human Revolution<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/realcleverscience.tumblr.com\/post\/8472475264\/ralphewig-purity-first-a-viral-marketing\">here<\/a>). It depicted a dystopian future brought about by transhumanist upgrades from corrupt companies. Well, the Deus Ex people hired Rob Spense, a self-proclaimed \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/specials\/packages\/article\/0,28804,1934027_1934003_1933989,00.html\"><strong>eyeborg<\/strong><\/a>\u201d (who kinda reminds me of an early Snake Plisskin), to produce this mini-documentary about the current state of transhumanist upgrades, such as bionic eyes and limbs. Pretty interesting stuff, and I love that it was done by a game company, which is fascinating in itself.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI mean, who says that a normal human leg is the optimal thing for you. [Our] species evolved to this leg we have now, but who says that\u2019s the end of the line?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Welcome to the Future everyone! Happy New Years from RCS!<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"attribution\">(<span>Source:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>realcleverscience: \u201cI am now filming your bionic hand with my bionic eye.\u201d These words have been uttered &#8211; and aren\u2019t science fiction. Some of you may remember an awesome and startling video I posted in August for the video game, Deus Ex: Human Revolution (here). It depicted a dystopian future brought about by transhumanist upgrades &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/01\/02\/realcleverscience-i-am-now-filming-your-bionic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9737,9268,9738,9739],"class_list":["post-35514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-argh","tag-da-fuq","tag-i-love-science","tag-i-love-the-futuuuuuuure","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35515,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35514\/revisions\/35515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}