Decipher Scifi : The Show About How And Why

Verhoven’s genius Over-the-top satire. Starship Troopers. Blood and guts in the late 80s/early 90s. Co-ed locker rooms and mocking commercial advertising interludes. Space Defense The “Star Wars” Strategic Defense Initiative. Firing weapons from space, orbital platforms, and simulated gravity. Depictions of artificial gravity in media at the time. Cyborgification Availability of cyborg components and social stratification. Different kinds of artificial hearts. Robocop The economics of the brainwashed cyborg vs pure AI robot. Body transplants vs brain transplants. Brain-machine interfaces Opto-neural processing enhancement. Reading visual memories from brain activity. Machine learning and eyeballs The resolution of the eye. Simple computer-vision and inadequacy of 1980s VHS tapes. Robot vs Robot Cyborg body design type choices. Bipeds descending stairs. Dean Kamen’s stair-climbing gyroscopic wheelchair. (correction: I talked about “tri-wheeled” tread-based wheelchair on the show. The