The Brain In The Machine

Steve Grand is currently teaching his children how to pee. Rather, he's teaching them to notice that mental niggle with which we're all familiar, the sense of a mounting pressure in some deep place that clues us to the fact that our bladder is full and we need to do something about it, quickly. Grand's children -- this current batch, at least -- have taken their father's name. The Grandroids, as they're known, are bug-eyed, quadrupedal animals. They look a bit like shaven dogs with giant octopus suckers for mouths (although that may radically change in the coming months).