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 RAY KURZWEIL
That Singularity Guy
In the year 2050, if Ray Kurzweil is right, nanoscopic robots will be zooming throughout our capillaries, transforming us into nonbiological humans. We will be able to absorb and retain the entirety of the universe's knowledge, eat as much as we want without g...READ MORE |
  VICE MAIL
Letters - The Technology Issue
Join The Family, An Eye For Detail, Clobbered By Bad Clobber...READ MORE |
 A TWITCH IN TIME
Daito Manabe's Electrified Face
Daito Manabe is a Japanese video artist who sticks half a dozen electrodes onto his face, synchs them all up to a blippy homemade soundtrack, and proceeds to electrocute himself into a choreography of grimaces and twitches...READ MORE |
 CHILLED MONKEY BRAINS
Head Transplants Made Easy
Dr. Robert J. White performed his first neurosurgery at age 15—on a frog cadaver in high school bio class. Over the next 50 years, he operated on more than 10,000 brains, one of which accounted for the most ambitious neurological experiment in history: In...READ MORE |
 HAMILTON'S PHARMACOPEIA
A Monthly Column by Hamilton Morris
SYNTHETIC OPIOIDS: THE MOST ADDICTIVE DRUGS IN THE WORLD
I have never been that into opiates. Sure, the drug train has made a brief stop at heroin junction, but it's honestly not my thing. It's not like I hate the effect—I like swimming...READ MORE |
 SHOT BY KERN
Photos by Richard Kern
Sophie was the nude guest on the first episode of Shot by Kern and she holds a dear, dear, dear place in our hearts. Why not go to VBS.TV, watch her get undressed for Richard, and fall in love with her all over again? Or at least masturbate while lookin...READ MORE |
 OOH, OOH, OOOOH, OOOOOOOF!
The Technology of Teenage Kicks
Rubbing yourself up against a dink or giner is good for having an orgasm, but all too often these organs of pleasure are attached to a human being who may end up causing you trouble, strife, or, worst of all, LOSS OF MONEY...READ MORE |
 SCREWED BY SEARCH
An Entire Generation, Em-Bare-Assed on the Web
In 1984, I was 15 and always eager to learn something new about the human experience. For some reason, the photo booth at the Central Avenue Woolworth's in Albany, New York, was my preferred venue for these lessons. Where could I document the creepy JFK...READ MORE |
 SHEPPARD'S VIDEO-GAME PIE
By Stephen Lea Sheppard
TOM CLANCY’S H.A.W.X.
On the one hand, Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. is fun, and it scratches a gaming itches I don’t get the opportunity to scratch that often anymore. On the other hand...READ MORE |
 THE FUTURE WAS BULLSHIT
Seven Technologies We're Supposed to Have by Now
Thinking about the state of technology today makes us want to curl up in the fetal position and cry like the Star-Child from the end of 2001 (if it had galactic diaper rash). Where is all the cool future stuff they promised us in cartoons and sci-fi mov...READ MORE |
 SKINEMA
By Chris Nieratko
GREAT SEX DURING PREGNANCY
Can you do me a favor? Pretend like you didn't see the picture above and when I ask you to guess what my wiener put inside my wife's guts, just say, "I don't know, what?"...READ MORE |
 PATENT PENDING
Over the years I have come up with some ingenious, inventive designs to help mankind. I have written them all in a notebook. I have showed this notebook to no one. I have been meaning to submit them to the patent office but I just haven't gotten around to it. ...READ MORE |
 CASTLES MADE OF TECHNOSAND
Inside Dubai's Terrordome
Dubai is a city where oil-rich Emiratis are willing to pay $14 million just to drive around with a license plate bearing the number "1." (Yes, that really happened.) It's a place filled with vast, multibillion-dollar palaces of unholy decadence, a kingdom of g...READ MORE |
 TECH-ARCHY
Beyond the Pages of The Anarchist Cookbook
At the tender and impressionable age of 19, William Powell wrote the original print edition of The Anarchist Cookbook. It was 1971 and the young man felt compelled to create an instructional catalyst for civic unrest resulting from the Vietnam War. He r...READ MORE |
 THE NUCLEOTIDAL WAVE
The Front Line of Mutant Food
For 50 bucks an hour, the UC Davis Plant Transformation Facility, one of the premier genetic-modification labs in the US, will offer its services to anyone with a dish of DNA, a vegetable, and a mutated dream. It is a place where ordinary supermarket fruits an...READ MORE |
 EPICLY LATER'D
By Patrick O'Dell
These are pictures from Skatopia, a skate park/farm/anarchy commune in Rutland, Ohio. I went there a few weeks ago to film some stuff for a weird TV show unrelated to my own weird TV show. I've been there before, maybe three times, but that was in the 90s and ...READ MORE |
 AURALLY FIXATED
Intergalactic Mastermind Ralph Lundsten Rewires Modern Music
Swedish composer Ralph Lundsten remains one of his generation’s greatest unheralded influences—an intergalactic ambassador who's so accomplished he makes most other mortals look like lazy uninspired slobs. Besides releasing more than 100 records...READ MORE |
 HOOTS MON! IT'S HAGGIS TIME!
The Technology Behind Scotland’s National Dish
Och aye, Jimmeh! Is there anything more satisfying in life than a wee dram and a haggis after a hard day's kilt-wearing and Sassenach-hating? And is any haggis more dreamy to eat than a venison haggis made from the innards of a fine West Highlands deer that ye...READ MORE |
 MY DAD WAS THE GAME MASTER
While most kids' parents limit their children's time playing video games, my Dad did the opposite. That is because my dad is Howard Phillips, Nintendo's former spokesperson and creative director, known better to first-generation Nintendo players as the Game Ma...READ MORE |
 SABERSEGGING
The Two Greatest Inventions of All Time, Together at Last
When history looks back at our quaint little era, it will focus on two things, the two most outstanding technological achievements of mankind: Segways and lightsabers. Segways are the chariots of the modern age, and lightsabers are the sabers of the modern age...READ MORE |
 RECORDS
Music Reviews - The Technology Issue
LADY SOVEREIGN
Jigsaw
Was grime ever really ready for its own KD Lang? Will it be any more ready now that Sov has started dressing like a Klaxon from 2004? Does Jay-Z actually like her?...READ MORE |
 POTATO SOUNDS
While You Press the Buttons You're Given, Adi Gelbart Grows His Own
Adi Gelbart is an Israeli-born, Berlin-based musician who builds his own instruments out of vegetables, kitchen utensils, and, well, anything else he finds lying around his studio laboratory. The songs he makes with this assortment of musical crap-paratus soun...READ MORE |
 SUBMARINE SMUGGLING
Dragging Drugs on the Ocean Floor
The greatest obstacle facing drug cartels has always been transporting narcotics from the poor regions that produce them to the less-poor areas that buy them. In the early part of the 2000s, a time still dominated by incarcerated Cali Cartel heads in Colombia,...READ MORE |
 YOU'RE GONNA DIE!
Gigadeath and Other Terrifying Thoughts of Hugo de Garis
Within the next 30 years, technology will advance at such a rate that it will produce an intelligence explosion, cause a world war, and create new variations of the human species. According to Hugo de Garis, a professor at Xiamen University in China...READ MORE |
 GHOULS IN THE MACHINE
Interview With a “Ghost Hunter” (Yeah, Right)
Do you remember that terrible film White Noise? The one where Michael Keaton is chased off a roof by evil spirits? Well, that film was about Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP). Not only was it crappy but it pissed off most people interested in EVP because...READ MORE |
 TRAMP BOOZE AND 20P FX PEDALS
How The Horrors Made the Best Album of the Year
During the course of this interview with Horrors guitarist Joshua Third, we experience the following technological breakdowns.
1. Gavin Watson loses his camera bag outside a pub...READ MORE |
 LITERARY
Book Reviews - The Technology Issue
Chicken: Low Art, High Calorie, Bad Ham, Smoking Outdoors, Dank: The Quest For The Very Best Marijuana. A Breeder's Tale, Secret Identity, Belgrade Belongs To Me, Subway Art: 25th Anniversary Edition, Submarine, Back II Life: Alphabetical Beginnings, Book Of S...READ MORE |
 RAW POWER
Wessel di Wesseli Builds Machines to Harvest Energy and Disprove the Foundations of Science
The holy grail of technology is a device called the perpetuum mobile. It is, in theory, a machine that remains in constant motion, moving entirely on its own, and all the while amassing more energy than it uses. It is an endless source of power. And as it requ...READ MORE |
 ALAN RUSSELL
A Regenerative Medicine Guy
Alan Russell is the founder of Pittsburgh's McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, the biggest multidisciplinary center for regenerative medicine in the world. Combining such disciplines as biotechnology, chemistry, tissue engineering (biological, not th...READ MORE |
 SHEPPARD'S VIDEO-GAME PIE
By Stephen Lea Sheppard
SHOOTER SEQUEL SHOOT-OUT: F.E.A.R. 2 VS. KILLZONE 2
A short time ago, I noticed something odd: Many reviews of F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin seemed to boil down to “It’s a great shooter but not much more,” while many reviews o...READ MORE |
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