A 1000 years from now...
The world is changing, music is changing, drugs are changing, even men and women are changing. One thousand years from now there’ll be no guys and no girls, just wankers. Sounds great to me.
Trainspotting, screenplay by John Hodge, based on the novel by Irvine Welsh
Head out to The Sex Singularity: When Machines Surpass Human Hotness for a fascinating scifi glimpse at our impending sexdoll future. Written in the sparse but suggestive Strossian infodump style, the piece is a rambling scrapbook of future news, some of them wonderfully imaginative: (via BoingBoing)
In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court rules for the defendant in Easy vs. Springfield Board of Education, affirming the right of anyone to publicly walk in the controversial robotic manner that’s gaining popularity among some teenage girls. In the dissenting opinion, Justice Scalia writes, “We have come to a time when this unnaturally affected and clearly recognizable gait can only be interpreted as an open invitation to sex, which makes walking in this manner an obscene expression with no legal place in a publically-funded educational institution. The gravity of this obscenity is doubled when the expression comes from a young woman who has not yet reached the statutory age of consent.”