Pepper, the Eye of the Beholder, and the Moon

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 [...]

Ancestor of Distributed Computing of 2230?

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 [...]

Universal Internet / Universal Wifi

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.

A Brief History of the World of 2230

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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