23 MAR 2013 by ideonexus

 The Argonauts

You are part of a scientifc techno-progressive movement that seeks to solve transhumanity’s injustices and inequalities with technology. You support universal access to technology and healthcare, open source models of production, morphological freedom, and democratization. You try to avoid factionalism and divisive politics, seeing transhumanity’s splintering as a hindrance to its perpetuation.
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Fictional organization in the Eclipse Phase universe that is pro-science and technology as a means to justice.

22 MAR 2012 by ideonexus

 The Borg and Ants

"Restless aggression, territorial conquest, and genocidal annihilation ... whenever possible.... The colony is integrated as though it were in fact one organism ruled by a genome that constrains behavior as it also enables it.... The physical superorganism acts to adjust the demographic mix so as to optimize its energy economy.... The austere rules allow of no play, no art, no empathy." The Borg are among the most frightening, and intriguing, species of alien creature ever portrayed on the t...
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Krauss presents a quote about E.O.Wilson's book on ants and how it works perfectly to describe the Borg in Star Trek.