Artificial biological pets. How long before artificial humans?
Update: I'd hoped to get a few comments believing it was real, but of course not with my readers.
Apparently many do, though, despite this being so far from what's possible yet. From this page:
"Genpets seem to create a reaction wherever they go. While in the store window of Iodine Toronto, the shop owner began sleeping in the store as many nights, people would bang at the windows furiously. Some in protest of the small bio-genetically engineered creatures trapped in plastic, some wanting to wake them up or buy them. Hordes of teens wanting a bioengineered pet met confused, baffled, or even shocked looks from parents."
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Leviathud points to "Cement Cuddlers".
Apparently it is a hoax, as explained by the artist here.
ReplyDeleteThis MUST be a joke ...
ReplyDeleteMy first thought was that it was a publicity stunt kicked up by (pick your paranoid schizophrenic fascination below):
* PETA
* Right-to-Lifers
* Anti-Bio-Engineering Terrorists
* the same people who make the crop circles
* those weird Seventh Church Science Readership whatever-you-call-it people who think God and space ships and ducks are the way to save us all from excess colonic treatment
I figured one or another of those groups would tell you when you ordered that your fascination with entrapping / cloning / eating / not eating these poor little cute furry things made you insensitive to their group's political aims.
Well, at least, that was my first impression.
Very well done website. Even has a "message board" function. :P
Very well done, and thought-provoking indeed! Do read the artist's page...
ReplyDeleteWhere do I find that?
ReplyDeleteWhat I want to know is the most important question nobody seems to be asking...
ReplyDeleteWhat do they taste like?
reminded me a bit of this:
ReplyDeletehttp://la.cacophony.org/CS_cement.html
They taste like chicken, obviously.
ReplyDelete"How long before artificial humans?"
ReplyDeleteSo, how do you spell Hollywood?
It's been described as being like cereal - whatever isn't fruit or nuts is flakes. Another wit said that if we could tip the world on its side, everything loose would land in L.A.