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Transhumanism is an international intellectual and cultural movement supporting the use of science and technology to improve human mental and physical characteristics and capacities.

The movement regards aspects of the human condition, such as disability, suffering, disease, aging, and involuntary death as unnecessary and undesirable.

Transhumanists look to biotechnologies and other emerging technologies for these purposes. Dangers, as well as benefits, are also of concern to the transhumanist movement.

Bottleneck…. 2010… I am finding it harder and harder to absorb and position all this info into a coherent mental hologram… the stream…. I feel like an infoholic some times who cannot remember the night before….

Illustration recently syndicated by a Mens Health Magazine in Germany for an article on our genetic makeup and how that ultimately determines the kinds of goals and results we can expect from our fitness programs and life extension.

Recent unfinished opening illustration that was cut at the 11th hour for an article on the Science of possession… commissioned by a Greek Science Magazine. Inspired by a series of hand painted Babushka dolls created by our Vancouver artist Friend Robert Chaplin.

The circular areas indicate the call-outs related to the different parts of the body.

Published by ESPN Magazine.

Have a great week… Kenn y Chris – Mondolithic Studios

This illustration was one of two created for Proto Magazine - a publication of the Massachusetts General Hospital and Time INc. - Proto, a prefix of progress, connotes first, novel, experimental. Alone, it conjures up the entire world of the new: discoveries, directions, ideas. In taking proto as a name, this magazine stakes its ground on medicine’s leading edge, reporting back from the frontiers of research and practice – exploring breakthroughs, dissecting controversies and opening a forum for informed debate.

Have a great weekend… Kenn y Chris – Mondolithic Studios

Who needs a Wii when you have a monkey….

The quarter page info-graphic shown on the right was commissioned by Focus Magazine, Italy to accompany a brief article about a researcher using a monkey’s brain waves to control a robot.

The 12-pound, 32-inch monkey made a 200-pound, 5-foot humanoid robot walk on a treadmill using only her brain activity.

She was in North Carolina, and the robot was in Japan.

It was the first time that brain signals had been used to make a robot walk, said Dr. Miguel A. L. Nicolelis, a neuroscientist at Duke University whose laboratory designed and carried out the experiment.

These experiments, Dr. Nicolelis said, are the first steps toward a brain machine interface that might permit paralyzed people to walk by directing devices with their thoughts. Electrodes in the person’s brain would send signals to a device worn on the hip, like a cell phone or pager, that would relay those signals to a pair of braces, a kind of external skeleton, worn on the legs.

“When that person thinks about walking,” he said, “walking happens.”