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When the Machines Take Over by Bill Walker

It’s political commentary, but something to think about for your futuristic corporate conspiracy games…

The military’s plan to regrow body parts. - By William Saletan - Slate Magazine
Yesterday the Department of Defense announced the creation of the Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine, which will go by the happy acronym AFIRM. According to DOD’s news service, AFIRM will “harness stem cell research and technology … to reconstruct new skin, muscles and tendons, and even ears, noses and fingers.” The government is budgeting $250 million in public and private money for the project’s first five years. NIH and three universities will be on the team.

Hopefully some of this will trickle down to us mere mortals, but it’s still a cool plot point.

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | US army develops robotic suits
The lightweight aluminium exoskeleton, called XOS, senses Rex’s every move and instantly moves with him; it is almost like a shadow or a second skin. It is designed for agility that can match a human’s, but with strength and endurance that far outweigh our abilities.

The future doesn’t seem so far away now, does it?

Paleo-Future: 2063 A.D. Book (1963)
For those just joining us, 2063 A.D. was a book published in 1963 by General Dynamics Astronautics. The book asked politicians, military commanders and scientists to speculate as to where humanity would be, a hundred years hence, in the great push towards space.

Maybe some ideas you can use in your futuristic game…maybe not. Some are rather hokey.

HeroForge Character Generation Toolkit Download Page

This is a bunch of character sheets and generators created in Excel spreadsheets.