We All Love Snuppy

I see articles such as the following as signs that cyberpunk is upon us.

A South Korean company says it has taken its first order for the cloning of a pet dog.

Craziness...

Speaking of cyberpunk, peep this:

Sarah Lipman, co-founder and R&D director for Power2B, suggested an almost mystical solution, somehow tapping into users' "neural networks" to navigate a mobile phone interface "using touch and pre-touch input."

And how trippy is this:

The dilemma, left unsolved by the panelists, was how to squeeze the user through that window, past the cashier, to sample all the things in the store, without guilt, while still feeling grateful to the cashier who seemed, all along, to be standing in the way.

All this cyberpunk and psychonautical literature from an article about a panel of human behavior and technology experts at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, which I think has a stupid and misleading headline.

Speaking of psychonauts, take a gander at this firsttime salvia user's experience: The World as a Pop-up book.

The rippling turned into an intense electric rolling, i began to sweat profusely and the world changed fast. Apparently I held my hands out in front of me for a while, like I was trying to tilt reality. I don’t know when it happened, but I realized this unbelievable truth. I finally learned that the world, existence, all of it doesn’t actually exist…its all a big joke, a conspiracy against me, and my friends were in on it.

Going back to the cloning thing. You know what makes that whole article hilarious? It's got this fairly scientific or serious tone and then near its final lines we find:

But the team did succeed in creating the world's first cloned dog two years ago - an Afghan hound named Snuppy.