Kudos on recent articles and books by Cyborg Democrats

• George Dvorsky's Betterhumans article "Scientific Ignorance Dooms Democracy" got referenced by SciTech Daily, and picked up a couple thousand extra eyeballs.



• Dale Carrico's Betterhumans article "Technology's Making Queers of us All" fabulously makes the case for the queerness of the transhuman project:

For queers who are bored with a vision of politics limited to the provision of rights to marry, adopt children and do battle, I will recommend to your attention the fledgling movement of transhumanism, which unites technological development with human self-creation in the hope of unleashing varieties of desire queers themselves have rarely (but sometimes) dreamt of. For transhumanists who are looking for wider cultural contexts and connections for your struggles, I will recommend to your attention a century or so of radical queer writing and activism, which helped carve the way for your efforts and provide you with probable allies you need now.

• Cyborg Democracy friend Chris Mooney has a great article reviewing anti-aging progress, "Looking Back, Looking Forward," in the Sage CrossRoads series



• My Betterhumans article discussing human-racism in the popular media, "Monsters in the Media," turned out to be a successful hit magnet - I mention about a hundred different pop culture search terms, from Lord of the Rings to Mork and Mindy.



• I just finished Engine City, the third novel in Ken MacLeod's Engines of Light series (1 - Cosmonaut Keep, 2 - Dark Light). It was, as usual, friggin brilliant. The story spans across the entire galaxy, more than 100,000 years, and makes very funny and insightful reference to the industrial revolution, the rise and fall of Communism, the vagaries of liberal democracy, and the political dimensions of the posthuman transition. Highly recommended.
  
  Kudos to Ken also for his fascinating initiative with the Demos think-tank, Scotland 2020, to produce a series of scenarios for Scotland in 2020. The project summary has a nice review of the use of narrative as a futures scenario-building method, which you can whip out to your transhumanist friends the next time they challenge the role of a science fiction reference in a futurist argument.