The Speculative Neuroscience of the Future Human Brain

We now live in the age where our drive to hybridize has pushed us to the brink of a neuroscientific revolution, where for the first time we are in a position to willfully alter the brain and hence, our behavior and evolution.. The notion of self is becoming increasingly extended. All of this to say: are we in control of our brains, or are they in control of us?

Dielenberg, R.A. The Speculative Neuroscience of the Future Human Brain. Humanities 2013, 2(2), 209-252; doi:10.3390/h2020209

Full Text: http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/2/2/209/htm

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UFO-Abduction Narratives and the Technology of Tradition

Overview:  This article examines UFO-abduction narratives posted to online discussion fora, and argues that these narratives reflect millennial anxieties over an anticipated hyper-technological future figured as “alien”… The UFO-abduction narrative is a particularly apt subject for such a study, and a legend of particular interest at this time, in that it confronts one of the central concerns of our age: humanity’s transformation through its engagement with technology…The aliens in UFO-abduction narratives, with their high-tech devices that allow them to intrude into the most intimate realms of human life (the interior of the home, the interior of the body, the “recesses of the mind”) aptly represent this vision of a hyper-technological future…To be abducted is to be overwhelmed by technology. Aliens almost never use bodily force to capture human beings, but rather rely on special devices beyond human ken to render humans helpless.

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Full Text: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~caforum/volume9/vol9_article4.html

UFO-Abduction Narratives and the Technology of Tradition  
Kimberly Ball
Cultural Analysis, Volume 9, 2010

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