#Organic technology

[interstellar-elf]

Like it's utterly weird how scifi has made organic technology this gross evil thing that only evil conquering aliens who have superiority complexes when real life organic technology is like... the wheat grown to make bread products, corn, mules, honeycrisp apples, and pumpkins that you carve for Halloween.

It weird how scifi kind of demonizes organic technology in lieu of machine based technology.

[siryl]

"Bioshipyard" by James Bielby.

[rupertbbare]

Leafy01 by Bernard Chan

[artapir]

Yet more alt-timeline museum models--coastal Biomayan "flying wing" drones, exhibiting some Chichimech influence. Midjourney 5.2

[inspectorspacetimerevisited]

Throughout most of the Classic Series,

it was rarely mentioned (or outright denied) that the BOOTH was actually partly organic.

[octahedral-chaos]

Random thing:

But I think more series should have biopunk/ biotech/ Organic technology in a similar vein to COCOON.

Like the idea of technology that's also alive is such an interesting idea.

[siryl]

Years ago I bought the first brick-sized book in the series hoping it would be like a serious adult version of Cobra-La. It doesn't seem to be in my bookcase anymore.

Frog- and lizard-derived optical and audiovisual recording devices from Harry Harrison’s West of Eden series.

[doydoune]

he'll never learn

[skunkes]

immediate redraw

[technicallyclassyperfection]

[clove-pinks]

Les Muses: La Musique by Paul Gavarni, 1839.

Slightly obsessed with this because she is listening to a mechanical device producing music—a real 1830s boom box!

It's a hand-cranked barrel organ, of course, but still small enough to be held in her lap!

This c. 1830 barrel organ sold at auction plays eight songs!

Another barrel organ made c. 1835 is described as playing "four dance sections." Given the focus on social dancing at the time, and the need for dance instruction, I wonder if something like this small barrel organ was the sound system for dancing classes.

Illustration from an 1830s French social dance manual (Victoria & Albert Museum).

[gmanmedias]

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[artapir]

Tactile- and photosensitive GMO Atlantean deep-sea fishhooks. Venomous spines, metallic barbs (biologically precipitated from metals in seawater), and leech-like sucker attachments are all features here. Midjourney 5.2

[front-facing-pokemon]

[biologist4ever]

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