Hello, folks, just wanted to say I’m not dead or even cryogenically suspended. I’m working on a new post re an update on my “Dream Gadgets” post here. Most specifically, I think I’m now in a place to make it happen, or at least most of it. Further bulletins as events warrant!
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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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We have problems now that need a futurist solution, and we need to think of the downsides of technologies that will be coming within the next few years and begin coming up with ways to mitigate or lessen the impact.
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But by another perspective on the cyborg spectrum, we are all cyborgs.
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What can technology do that would radically change your life for the better? You personally, not the world in general. Now think how it could be done.
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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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“But what do you use it for? What do you do with it?” These questions came from my mother during a recent conversation. She was asking me about my computers and my electronic-infested life, and could not understand why I am so attached to my computers and gadgets. My step-father had asked me not long [...]
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Why would anybody want to replace their body, in whole or in part, with mechanical parts? Why in the world would anybody want to upload their mind into a machine?
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In ten years — twenty at the outside — universal Internet will no longer be a luxury but a necessity. Later, it may well be considered a human right.
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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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