{"id":13220,"date":"2015-01-04T17:42:08","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T01:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=13220"},"modified":"2015-06-08T19:24:05","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T02:24:05","slug":"new-book-an-irreverent-singularity-funcyclopedia-by-mondo-2000s-r-u-sirius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/new-book-an-irreverent-singularity-funcyclopedia-by-mondo-2000s-r-u-sirius","title":{"rendered":"New Book: An Irreverent Singularity Funcyclopedia, by Mondo 2000\u2019s R.U. Sirius."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quoted: \u201cLegendary cyberculture icon (and iconoclast) R.U. Sirius and Jay Cornell have written a delicious funcyclopedia of the Singularity, transhumanism, and radical futurism, just published on January 1.\u201d And: \u201cThe book, \u201c<em><a href=\"http:\/\/redwheelweiser.com\/detail.html?session=02626f1f95d95cd5bb6ddce0eb75bb94&amp;id=9781938875090\" target=\"_blank\">Transcendence \u2013 The Disinformation Encyclopedia of Transhumanism and the Singularity<\/a><\/em>,\u201d is a collection of alphabetically-ordered short chapters about artificial intelligence, cognitive science, genomics, information technology, nanotechnology, neuroscience, space exploration, synthetic biology, robotics, and virtual worlds. Entries range from Cloning and Cyborg Feminism to Designer Babies and Memory-Editing Drugs.\u201d And: \u201cIf you are young and don\u2019t remember the 1980s you should know that, before <em>Wired<\/em> magazine, the cyberculture magazine <em>Mondo 2000<\/em> edited by R.U. Sirius covered dangerous hacking, new media and cyberpunk topics such as virtual reality and smart drugs, with an anarchic and subversive slant. As it often happens the more sedate <em>Wired<\/em>, a watered-down later version of <em>Mondo 2000<\/em>, was much more successful and went mainstream.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p>Read the article here &gt;<a href=\"https:\/\/hacked.com\/irreverent-singularity-funcyclopedia-mondo-2000s-r-u-sirius\/\">https:\/\/hacked.com\/irreverent-singularity-funcyclopedia-mondo-2000s-r-u-sirius\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quoted: \u201cLegendary cyberculture icon (and iconoclast) R.U. Sirius and Jay Cornell have written a delicious funcyclopedia of the Singularity, transhumanism, and radical futurism, just published on January 1.\u201d And: \u201cThe book, \u201cTranscendence \u2013 The Disinformation Encyclopedia of Transhumanism and the Singularity,\u201d is a collection of alphabetically-ordered short chapters about artificial intelligence, cognitive science, genomics, information [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":342,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1527,1470,1502,1513,1503,11,40,1523,33,1761,34,1499,14,1528,1628,1521,1488,39,1694,1625,1497,38,1509,1507,30,12,1516,45,1588,1506,172,20,945,412,77,1524,37,41,1522,418,269,42,9,1512,4,47,2,1500,1412,1617,6,224,1492,64,1629,1633,8,1514,44,1515,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-alien-life","category-automation","category-big-data","category-bionic","category-bioprinting","category-biotech-medical","category-complex-systems","category-computing","category-cosmology","category-cryptocurrencies","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-cyborgs","category-defense","category-disruptive-technology","category-dna","category-driverless-cars","category-drones","category-economics","category-electronics","category-encryption","category-energy","category-engineering","category-entertainment","category-environmental","category-ethics","category-existential-risks","category-exoskeleton","category-finance","category-first-contact","category-food","category-fun","category-futurism","category-general-relativity","category-genetics","category-hacking","category-hardware","category-human-trajectories","category-information-science","category-innovation","category-internet","category-life-extension","category-media-arts","category-military","category-mobile-phones","category-nanotechnology","category-neuroscience","category-nuclear-weapons","category-posthumanism","category-privacy","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai","category-science","category-security","category-singularity","category-software","category-solar-power","category-space","category-space-travel","category-supercomputing","category-time-travel","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/342"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}