reason.com — A few decades ago, the most popular science fiction epics were stories that were set thousands or even 10,000 years in the future but involved human beings more or less like us and societies like our own, but with more advanced technology. Today, by contrast, many of the genre?s top writers are unwilling to speculate more than 20 years ahead.
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buddywMay 24, 2007
Another excellent article by Reason Magazine. You guys are thinking small.It's just wording, but singularity is defining when (if) we are all connected to a single consciousness. Think of each person as a computer and look at how far the internet has advanced us. It is a relatively slow and inefficient information exchange for humans. What happens when we are wired in have a sort of collective consciousness that we can interact with. Not necessary all the same (e.g. borg) but all networked.I also agreed with his comment about feeling 'disconnected' when away from the internet.
tyywebbMay 24, 2007
^^ Name of my wireless network.
Closed AccountMay 24, 2007
If you're tired of small thinking science fiction just read Larry Niven, there's no one better.
keysersoze1May 24, 2007
The day the average person has a computer implant that can feed them the info we can now get off the net, the models for human society will break down because there will be no past analogue for how society will change. Just think of it this way, when Corky can get an implant to make him as intellegent as the average present day genius, what will the future geniuses be like?
jhshuklaMay 24, 2007
bionic arms, legs, ears, eyes, artificial hearts & lungs, artificial blood, steel plates for bones, skin grafting, growing parts using stem cells -- we are half way there. it won't be long before everything except the brain can be replaced. I give it 20-30 years. and about 10 more for regenerating brain neurons. 10 more for testing and certification.
craven320May 24, 2007
Just watch the movie Idiocracy. I think that movie is far more relevant than the creators intended it would be.
barrykeMay 25, 2007
I don't even know what that is so i own you all.
kurtu5May 26, 2007
Uh care to tell me which Baxter book that is? I am too much of a nerd to pick up another Carl Hiaasen book, even though they are quite fun to read. Time to drive too borders for some weekend reading.
kurtu5May 26, 2007
"Dracos Tavern" is pretty funny.I especially love the "slow ones". Throughout the various tales of this alien spaceport in siberia, there is one alien who moves so slow, he is only halfway though the gel airlock for most of the stories.