If you concoct a convincing on-line meta-personality on the Net, then that personality really IS you. With so few things around these days to loan a person identity, the palette of identities you create for yourself in the vacuum of the Net — your menu’s of alternative “you’s” — actually IS you. Or an isotope of you. Or a photocopy of you.

Microserfs, Douglas Coupland (via prostheticknowledge)

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.

William Gibson (via shelbot)

In 2003, the US military had almost no robots in its arsenal but now has 7,000 unmanned aircraft and at least 10,000 ground vehicles.

US military embraces robot ‘revolution’

A European cargo ship the size of a London double-decker bus bid farewell to the International Space Station late Friday after five months docked at the orbiting laboratory. The European Space Agency’s (ESA) space freighter Jules Verne, the first of a new fleet of Automated Transfer Vehicles (ATV), undocked from the station at 5:29 p.m. EDT (2129 GMT) to begin a leisurely, 23-day descent and destruction.

European Cargo Ship Departs Space Station | LiveScience