Steps into Space

Lunopolis is a documentary style paranoia-toggling sf movie that relies on creative scripting, candid acting and gritty shooting to propel a heady, visceral path of discovery deep into the "truth" about our timeline and human cities on the moon. Highly recommended, watch with the lights off in a smoke-filled room, free on Netflix.

Also, in the spirit of Zero History (sci-fi conspiracy/the future is now) I came across this story of a paralyzed woman who was given a robotic arm that is controlled by her mind. Scientists mapped the neurons that fire when she thinks of moving her physical arm to the mechanism that controls the robotic arm.

The possibilities here are very exciting! If someone can control a device with her mind, where would the limitations end? One trick with this robotic arm is that imagining moving your arm fires the same centers in your brain as if you actually were moving your arm. (Interesting too when you think about doing something in a dream, is the sensation of the experience registered on our subconscious as truly as physically doing it?) Could we link ourselves to super-robots and interface with astonishingly powerful machines? Could we explore deep outer space in first-person? On a darker twist, could this the first step to a surrogates future? The singularity must be drooling. By the way, you've got to love that the main difference between Bruce Willis and his surrogate is hair.