http://www.machinepresence.com/

A very fine comment about the possibility of remotely controlling rats, with very typical characterizations of those who think different:

"At the State University of New York in Brooklyn, a team of scientists has successfully implanted electrodes into the brains of rats, allowing them to "control" the behavior of said rats remotely -- at distances of almost 550 yards. With the transmission of overwhelming ... "

Un interesante comentario acerca de la posibilidad de controlar, en forma remota, el comportamiento de unas ratas, acompañado de los debidos insultos para quienes piensan diferente:

En la Universidad de Nueva York en Brooklyn, un equipo de científicos ha logrado implantar electrodos en el cerebro de unas ratas, permitiéndoles controlar el comportamiento de las mismas en forma remota, a distancias de casi 550 yardas...

www.cyberlewis.com/graphic/posthuman/arttalka.htm

In Extropy & Transhumanist Art, James Wm. Lewis writes:

"A Transhumanist Artist realizes that Extropy will enhance human abilities to sense, perceive and manipulate the cosmos. We know that in a gigahertz world, our sluggish, 100 cycle/second brains are too slow, are virtually blind, are unable to directly transmit their contents to other meat brains, and die about the time they have been fully educated. Being trapped in a meat brain is a cruel fate for any human consciousness"

Un artista transhumanista comprende que la "extropía" ensanchará las habilidades humanas de sentir, percbir y manipular el cosmos. Sabemos que en un mundo de gigaherz, nuestros pobres cerebros de 100 ciclos por segundo son demasiado lentos, virtualmente ciegos, incapaces de transmitir su contenido a otros cerebros de carne, y mueren casi cuando ya han sido completamente educados. Esatr atrapado en un cerebro de carne es un destino cruel para la conciencia humana.

It was Elias Canetti who wrote that the desire of inmortality is the mother of all crimes of humanity.
Fue Elias Canetti quien escribió, creo que en Masa y Poder, que el deseo de inmortalidad es el que ha generado los grandes crímenes de la humanidad.

Excelente recuento del tratamiento que la cultura de masas da al tema del Fin del mundo.
Excellent account of pop culture´s treatement of the subject of The End of the World.

www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/9941/madmax.html

"The mad, bad desire people have to believe that they are the ones living in the truly fin Fin de Siècle spans the centuries. Yet, at no other time in history has the pop passion for world destruction been so tantalizingly and graphically realized as it is today. No need to rely on dusty old tomes and numbingly dull church services to get your fix of End Times frenzy. Today, the modern media can deliver Doomsday with all the fire and brimstone, radiation and fall-out, murder and mayhem, CGI and mood music that any apocalypse fan could possibly want. (Well, shy of the genuine article, that is) You could definitely say that Armageddon has never looked so good. Or been so popular".

El deseo loco de la gente de creer que vive el verdadero "fin de siglo" discurre a través de los siglos. Sin embargo, en ningún otro momento de la historia, la pasión por la destrucción del mundo de la cultura de masas había sido realizada gráficamente como hoy.

A wonderful view from Elpidio Earp (Spring - Year 2000)
www.datelineterra.com/talktous
www.datelineterra.com/apoc2010/apoc2010.htm
"There will be a time, however, at the End of this Phenomenal Drama ... some 5 billion years away, in distant future ..., when an astonished Red Giant Romeo will finally look to his beloved Juliet, just a few instants before swallowing her small body, all taken by fire, and will shout his last terrible cry. A cosmic shout that will be heard through millions and millions of galaxies.
Then, it will be too late for anything else but silence - a memorial silence that follows the death of gods; before it all starts over again ..."

"A glooming peace this morning with
The Sun for sorrow will not show his head:
Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things;
Some shall be pardon'd and some punish'd:
For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo."
(W. Shakespeare)

Llegará un día, sin embargo, al final de este Drama Fenoménico...de aquí a unos 5 billones de años, en el futuro distante..., cuando un atónito Romeo Gigante y Rojo finalmente mirará a su amada Julieta, apenas unos instantes antes de devorar su pequeño cuerpo, consumido por el fuego, y gritará su último grito terrible: un grito cósmico que será escuchado en millones y millones de galaxias.
Entonces será demasiado tarde para cualquier cosa excepto el silencio - el silencio que sigue a la muerte de los dioses, antes de que todo comience otra vez...

It may very well end up being true the most incredible of all nightmares of religion: The end of the world. Even if its arrival makes no sense, because it would steal the sense of all other possibilities, even if its acomplishment would prevent the fervorous believers from enjoying it, today, more than ever, that nigthmare of an allucinated monk can become a reality. Mad scientists playing with toys and promisig Eternity, total war being waged over the globe, organs traffic...the whole ladscape of modern world makes what used to be an old superstition into a possible scenario. In this place we will gossip and speculate about the latest achievements of those who want to help God in his last work.

De todas las locuras con las que soñó el hombre, tal vez el Fin del Mundo haya sido la más increible, las más estrafalaria, ya que su cumplimiento significaba la abolición de todas las posibilidades, incluida ella misma. El post-humanismo, la guerra total en la que vivimos, los niños suicidas, el tráfico de órganos, los delirios ilustrados de los científicos de la robótica o del genoma, son simples heraldos de segunda clase de lo que nos tiene reservado la visión de alucinado de Patmos. En este diario divagaremos por las noticias más alarmantes, esas que nos hacen más conscientes, a cada minuto, de que la más improbable de todas las estupideces de la religión posiblemente termine siendo cierta.