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Ever since I was young I imagined the world to be filled with people imbued with super powers. Those that can read minds, those who can do the physically impossible, those who can do a million things at once. Whenever something is out of reach, I'd wish my arms could extend, whenever I didn't know something, I wish I had the brain to penetrate computers (or other minds) for instantaneous information, I'm always seeking to extend beyond the natural limitations of the human body.

As I grew older, I began to see how these fantastical abilities are possible with the use of technology- and delighted in finding other people that are fascinated with exploring and pushing these boundaries of the human limit as well. I became obsessed with the general areas of technology, health, animal, plants, psychology, robotics, especially the fusion of all disciplines that enhance or produce superhumans. My bookcases and corners of my room is filled with scientific magazines; of which I've been feasting upon the knowledge from the pages ever since I was 9. It's an exciting era to be living in. As technology becomes increasingly advanced, microchips becoming tinier, the arrival of nano-technology, and new forms of technology and materials, our dreams of being superhuman is slowly coming alive- like Frankenstein.

With this blog, I hope to bring these developing technologies to the average masses - the casual scientific observers- and explore the future implications of this fusion of technology and human body- the super-humanness in a lighter, casual perspective. Most people outside of the scientific communities are not interested or aware of the potential technologies developing in the world that can directly impact them by extending their natural limitations or completely transcending it in their daily lives. With this blog, I hope to make these technologies relevant to the everyday, the everyone.

My perspective has always been the passionately-engrossed fan of budding technologies, at the same time, a cool, detached awareness of negative implications of such technologies. My tone will reflect such attitude: spirited narration with breathless naive excitement, tinged slightly of doom.

Potential Blog Topics: Telekinesis with microchips, shopping with embedded microchips, human tagging and tracking, nano-robots repairing our bodies (and curing cancer), incredible sight: seeing beyond colors, goodbye skin cancer, hello tan (thank you microchip!), powersuits (be strong like hulk).

Keywords: super-human, human technology fusion, robotics, bio-technology.

Blog Profile

MedGadget is a medical journal/blog established in December of 2004. The official description is"..an independent online journal covering the latest medical gadgets and technologies, discoveries in medical science, and the progress of the digital revolution in the healthcare industry." I love their tagline, "The Medical Revolution Will Be Blogged." The topics in MedGadget cover a wide range of multidisciplinary topics from Anesthesiology, to Art, to Pediatrics, to military medicine, etc. The articles are written by a group of eight MDs and biomedical engineers located in different locations around the United States. Collaboratively, they target the medical content toward the medical field such as doctors, nurses, administrators, and medical device developers.

An interesting point in MedGadget is that they stress the term "independent", meaning that their articles are written objectively and untied to any company biases and alliances, which establishes credibility with the audiences. Additionally, since MedGadget’s content is geared towards people in the medical industry, MedGadget further establishes themselves as an authority and go-to blog for medical news and breakthroughs of wide disciplines.

The rate at which blog articles are posted is massive, up to 10 different posts in a single day. They've been quite busy. Reassuringly, it means that the writers are truly up-to-date on medical news. The format at which the articles follow is professional but not loaded with medical jargon, which is a relief to the casual readers like me. I'm sure that the blog's minimal use of medical jargon is not intentionally written for the casual, non-industry readers, Instead, I think that the reason serves a another purpose. MedGadget is a highly multi-discipline blog; therefore the high use of medical jargon will restrict comprehension for many readers of all other disciplines. In other words, the minimal use of medical jargon or industry jargon will allow readers of all disciplines to read and comprehend all news from every discipline. True to its non-jargon voice, many of the posts don't dive into extensive depth or detail on its topics. The articles first give a brief summery on the recent developments around the breakthrough to bring the readers up to speed on what happened before in that field, and then summarizes the type of technology or breakthrough- further clues that MedGadget want to include professional readership from every field.

MedGadget covers the cutting edge of medicine, my blog covers frankenology. Our two subject areas and topics of interest intersect widely, as medicine on the cutting edge does involve plenty of innovative technology curing human ills or enhancing human abilities, something that I will call frankenology. Our site will differ mainly in audience. MedGadget targets the industry, Frankenology will keep the casual audience in loop of recent breakthrough developments. A second difference is that MedGadget serves to inform on matters of scientific breakthroughs on all industry, Frankenology will inform the casual audience on scientific breakthroughs directly catered to them; covering technology that will directly affect their everyday lives or at the very least capture their imagination.

Most of MedGadget’s articles are not geared toward the average consumer; in fact, much of all medical or scientific breakthroughs are rarely geared toward the average person. The time it takes from breakthrough, to prototyping, to testing, to federal approval, to licensing, to building a profitable business, and finally to the hands of the everyday people takes years upon years. For this blog’s objective, Medgadget does provide the glean of possibility and bits and pieces of what the future will be like, and between the two, much can be written about it.

Voice Analysis

The writer of Geekologie at Geekologie.com is the inspiration for this blog's voice. Geekologie's voice character sounds like a testosterone-fueled guy who is hearing the news/technology for the first time over a round of beers and joking around with his fellas. In fact, most of his blog posts sound like he's drunk. Drunk and crazy. Filled with vivid described imagery of crazy situations and opinions about the technology/subject matter at hand, this drunk & crazy language goes well with mainstream audiences- ultimately making Geekologie an entertaining read. Let's first cover the basics in this analysis and we'll narrow it down to specifics of character.

First of all, Geekologie's voice is geared towards mainstream audiences by adopting an informal and conversational voice throughout:

Let's face it: kids were born to make your life a living hell and wreak havoc on your house and mental health whenever possible (note: this is all speculation, I don't actually have any kids. ANYMORE -- they're all growed up!).

Secondly, even his titles are also informally titled. Examples such as "Kill It With Unkindness!: A Homeless Robot", "Eeeek, Kill Them!: I-SWARM Robotic Army", "Looks Breakable: New PS4 Concept Art". Much of the titles are named by reactions of the author and his opinion, which further personalizes the blog posts to the character Geekologie is trying to portray.

Third, Geekologie's character is also highly reactive and opinionated to the subject matter "discussed" (if we can call it that):

Wait -- is that caramel corn? TODDLERS DON'T EAT CARAMEL CORN?

Specifically character wise, his seemingly high testosterone is created through (liberal) references to beer, women, beating people up, breaking things, and name calling:

Do not drink, my ass. I have an iron stomach (and lung) and am gonna guzzle that whole jar like I'm shotgunning a beer. LASER VISION, YOU WILL BE MINE!!

Another interesting element of the male testosterone will be the constant one-upsmanship:

This is a video of an F-18 Hornet buzzing some guy's head so close you can taste the jet fuel. [...] Also, not to brag or nothin', but one time I let a jet land ON MY FACE. Now who's the man?!

Alongside the brutishness, he conveys an slightly evil attitude coupled with rough word choice:

[Regarding children] ... What are you, trying to kill the little bastard? Cause you know they fetch a pretty penny on the black market. I mean, I'VE HEARD. Firsthand (meet me behind the Dollar General).

Lastly, sarcasm is conveyed in much of his posts:

Wow. That's, uh, really something. Really something wrong with the world. I mean, how the hell does something like this get approved for manufacture and sale? Japan. Right, I keep forgetting

All in all- and in a nutshell- testosterone-filled guy talk. It resonates well with much of the mainstream audience. My blog voice will be just as informal and opinionated, but not as gender-specific and testosterone-filled.