Ever Wondered What an io9 Is? Here’s Your Answer

At some peak over the last 10 years , have you ever stopped and wondered : What is an io9 ? Well , wonder no more . This animated telecasting , voiced by co - founder Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders , reveals the secrets of the io9 twist , which were thoughtlost in the thick of time . Check it out below .

( Oh , and if you want the behind - the - scenes story of the situation ’s name , find out this interviewwith our co - founders Annalee and Charlie Jane , too . )

What is an io9?

io9s were marketed as tacky time machines in the 2070s . They were actually just scummy - grade input / output devices for the nous that tuned tachyon waves and kick in drug user graphic images of potential future . Because nobody was actually traveling to the hereafter , it was impossible to say whether they were exact prediction . sceptical scientists drop doubt on the Sojourner Truth of these “ io9 Utopian visions , ” cite computer models that evoke the future was statistically more potential to be dystopian .

The io9 brain implants were so habit-forming , and drove so many people insane , that the things were finally illegalize . Rumor has it that insurgent , pro - democracy hacker are still making them somewhere . But it ’s out of the question to find them using politics - approved search apps .

Today the Son is mostly just slang . io9ers are the former implanters who obsessionally upgrade themselves with beta tech . People who pick off out on buggy brainware are sometimes allege to have “ gone io9 . ” The ones who see io9er visions of a better tomorrow — at least , the unity who have n’t been re - educated — speak about it only in transitory , off - the - record electronic messaging session . “ We come from the futurity , ” they type , before their texts are obliterated evermore . “ There is still Bob Hope . ”