In my rant on The Imaginative Death of the Future I said I’d think about ideas I’d rather see being explored today. This is the first post in this series. The subject: BRAINS! Supplements like gingko and brahmi can help slow the degradation of the brain, but what technologies are available to actually provide human […]
Read more "Intelligence Augmentation"Attention Conservation Notice: This is a long rambling post about what I think The Future means (and doesn’t mean) today. It also has some pics and trailer for the new Disney movie π If we’re living in a science-fictional world, does this mean the future, as a concept, no longer exists? Was the “future” just […]
Read more "the imaginative death of the future"from Bruce Sterling’s blog we learn: Technology Review: Billionaire Offers $25 Million to Save Earth! Billionaire Richard Branson is on a tear these days. Last year at Bill Clinton’s Global Initiative meeting in New York, Branson announced that he would spend $3 billion of his Virgin profits to research and develop renewable-energy technologies. Now he […]
Read more "why Industrial solutions won’t fix the problems of Industrialization"One of my resolutions for 2007 is to try and be more productive with my time and such. Crazy, I know, but there it is. For too long I’ve been cursed by an overflowing inbox, and too many open links in my browser. All crying out for my attention. Too often I’d waste time starring […]
Read more "reducing the attention expenses"In part of his annual state of the world address on The Well Bruce Sterling says: The worst part about writing science fiction is the publishing and distribution system. Practically everything we know about literature and popular literate culture is predicated on the use of ink on paper. I was a big fan of that […]
Read more "bruces on writing in teh 21C"Warren Ellis recently said is his post Flying Frogs And Crashed Rocketships
I share a conviction with Steven Shaviro, whose most recent book was CONNECTED, that we live in a science fictional world. Not the one everyone expected, of course Β no jetpacks. But good science fiction, challenging science fiction, is never about the future we expect. Sf has never been about predicting the future. ItΒs been about laying out a roadmap of possibilities, one dark street at a time, and applying that direction to the present condition…
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The Committee to Nuke Elysium 