Science fiction has long played with the idea of projecting unified personalities/minds/”souls” into different bodies. The premise is baked into the plots of stories like Avatar and Caprica. But how would it work in the real world? That’s what the science of “embodied cognition” is all about. The basic idea in this new(ish) research area…
Putting an expiration date on the future is risky. Take the Terminator franchise: The all-important “Judgment Day” — originally set in the “near future” of 1997 — has been pushed back twice already. Here’s a timeline of future scenarios past their sell-by dates – and a few that will curdle soon. Better to keep things…
