Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts
Thursday, May 22, 2025

Yesterday's Tomorrow

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Another glance at some futuristic inventions from fiction that have come into real existence, in this case from the cartoon series THE JETSO...
Thursday, December 05, 2024

Welcome to the Future

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Recommended for fans and writers of near-future science fiction: YOU CALL THIS THE FUTURE? THE GREATEST INVENTIONS SCI-FI IMAGINED AND SCIEN...
Thursday, January 04, 2024

AI as a Bubble

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Cory Doctorow's latest LOCUS column analyzes AI as a "tech bubble." What Kind of Bubble Is AI? Although I had a vague idea...
Thursday, November 23, 2023

Thanksgiving and Traditions

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Happy American Thanksgiving! Ordinarily we spend the weekend after Turkey Day at ChessieCon, formerly Darkover Grand Council, which has trad...
Thursday, June 15, 2023

The Internet Knows All

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This week I acquired a new HP computer to replace my old Dell, which had started unpredictably freezing up at least once per day. Installing...
Thursday, April 13, 2023

How Will AI Transform Childhood?

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According to columnist Tyler Cowen, "In the future, middle-class kids will learn from, play with and grow attached to their own persona...
Thursday, March 31, 2022

SF Versus Fantasy

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At this year's ICFA (which I wrote about last week), one of the free goodies distributed at meals was a copy of the March/April 2020 ASI...
Thursday, March 10, 2022

Big Tech Tyranny?

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Cory Doctorow's March LOCUS column discusses tech tycoons from the perspective of monopoly and world domination. Well, that phrase may b...
Thursday, January 13, 2022

Luddites and SF

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The term "Luddite" is typically applied to people who oppose technological advances. That's basically what I've always ass...
Thursday, September 30, 2021

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

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The October 2021 issue of NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC features a pair of lead articles about "green" power for aircraft and cars, mainly e...
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Thursday, September 02, 2021

Failures of Prediction

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To dispose of one point up front, of course we know the purpose of science fiction isn't literally to predict future technology and soci...
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Thursday, July 15, 2021

Monopolies and Interoperabilty

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Another LOCUS article by Cory Doctorow on monopolies and trust-busting: Tech Monopolies He begins this essay by stating that he doesn...
Thursday, April 08, 2021

Starting Afresh

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Kameron Hurley's newest LOCUS column discusses making a fresh start with the turn from winter to spring: Plotting the Way Forward No...
Thursday, January 14, 2021

Sufficiently Advanced Technology

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As we know, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" (Arthur C. Clarke). Conversely, many magical ev...
Thursday, July 16, 2020

AI and Human Workers

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Cory Doctorow's latest LOCUS essay explains why he's an "AI skeptic": Full Employment He believes it highly unlikely t...
Thursday, June 13, 2019

Inside Apollo

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The June 2019 issue of SMITHSONIAN magazine includes a long article on little-known aspects of the Apollo lunar exploration project. Unfortu...
Thursday, August 02, 2018

Replicators on the Horizon

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Right here in Annapolis, a 3-D printer at the local Home Depot has been used to create a prosthetic limb for a five-year-old boy born withou...
Thursday, April 19, 2018

Sapient Hibernators?

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Recently on Quora someone asked why human beings can't stay awake for a week straight and then sleep for the same amount of time, instea...
Thursday, August 24, 2017

Trazzles and Tweedlers

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While re-shelving our books in our newly redecorated basement "library," I came across WHICH WAY TO THE FUTURE? (2001), a collecti...
Thursday, June 22, 2017

Updating Older Books

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When a book published years or decades ago and set in the "present" gets reprinted in a new edition, should the technology and cul...