This Time Next Year, You Could Be Posthuman


	This Time Next Year, You Could Be Posthuman

shunyax

5-25-2008 4:43 PM

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5-26-2008 10:59 AM

meancookie89

dude that lady had 4 arms! Whoa!

5-27-2008 7:51 AM

lmonro

hm...original...

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/83d1bfbf-5b59-4312-b638-bd5001d3331b/17698758-833B-4EB5-B712-F3C17E9EA66C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://io9.com/370860/this-time-next-year-you-could-be-posthuman" href="http://io9.com/370860/this-time-next-year-you-could-be-posthuman" style="font-size: 11px;">io9.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://io9.com/370860/this-time-next-year-you-could-be-posthuman"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/io9.com/img/78C65382-54EE-4EDD-896F-DCA00D297D2D" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://io9.com/370860/this-time-next-year-you-could-be-posthuman">If you want to be posthuman too, or transhuman or cyborgian, you'll be waiting a long time. But we've got five things you can put on your to-do list today to make all of us more posthuman by this time next year.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://io9.com/370860/this-time-next-year-you-could-be-posthuman"><STRONG>To-Do List for Futurists: Become Posthuman</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://io9.com/370860/this-time-next-year-you-could-be-posthuman"><STRONG>1. Today</STRONG>: Download the <A href="http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/">Rosetta@home program</A>, and let your computer crunch data on protein shapes while you're not using it.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://io9.com/370860/this-time-next-year-you-could-be-posthuman"><P><STRONG>2. This week:</STRONG> Read all about what posthumans and transhumans want in <A href="http://io9.com/tag/james-hughes/" title="Click here to read more posts tagged JAMES HUGHES" rel="nofollow" class="autolink">James Hughes</A>' fantastic book <A href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/0813341981/ref=nosim/?tag=io9-20">Citizen Cyborg</A>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://io9.com/370860/this-time-next-year-you-could-be-posthuman"><STRONG>3. This month:</STRONG> Volunteer to participate in neurological experiments at your local university.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://io9.com/370860/this-time-next-year-you-could-be-posthuman"><P><STRONG>4. This month:</STRONG> Get a high-tech implant. Want to feel electro-magnetic waves? <A href="http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mods/news/2006/06/71087">Get a magnet implanted in your finger.</A> Want to be machine-readable? <A href="http://www.amal.net/rfid.html">Get an RFID implanted under your skin.</A> You can save all kinds of useful data on that RFID, but just be sure you keep it encrypted!</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://io9.com/370860/this-time-next-year-you-could-be-posthuman"><STRONG>5. 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