When Xyl returns to her old stomping grounds of Little Cairo, she arrives at the Bazaar where she first met her best friend Pepper – The sound levels of the bazaar always threatened to give Xyl a headache. She grinned as she walked through the airlock’s blast of fresh air and into the giant high-ceilinged [...]
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Xyl’s best friend and mentor, Sgt. Damien Pepper, is a history buff. He loves what he knows as “Pre-Millenial” history — the 1960′s through the turn of the Millenium. In this scene from Aquaria, Pepper reveals a discovery he’s made out in the Wastelands. He and his gang are scavengers and he’s found an old [...]
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From the history of 2230 (see the second post of this blog for full text): The technique of distributed computation — using thousands, even millions, of computers to process massive amounts of data during unused processor cycles — enabled researchers to do in days what would have taken decades of tedious work. Such rapid numbercrunching [...]
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The return to a nomadic life began with the first tendrils of NetSpace, that first explosive chaos of the archaic InterNet, with the ability to communicate and share data from anywhere on the planet.
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How close are we in the real world of today to the technologies, to the culture, to the psychology of my imaginary 2230? How close, ultimately, is reality to science-fiction?
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