Kate Kaplan's vision of the future sounds pretty cool to me. She might be interested in my exploration of the population density of Trantor.
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Sounds Good to Me
30 Dec 2007 04:31 pm
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Sorry to ask an off-topic question, but...
All day the formatting on this blog has been screwed up--is this just a problem on my end or are other people having trouble, too? Thanks.
you’ll just carry a small chip with you that can expand into a private portable toilet.
Hey, with that kind of technology, you might as well have chips installed in your bladder and large intestine that would allow you to make a couple of "deposits" every day.
I'm still trying to figure out how Trantor got to be the seat of the Galactic Senate in the Star Wars movies.
Hey guys thanks =D!!
I'm so surprised and glad you guys like my commets in THE NEW YORK TIMES about new york 100 years in the future! Also I love that idea about installing chips in someone blatter, I think thats awsome!!
I'm still trying to figure out how Trantor got to be the seat of the Galactic Senate in the Star Wars movies.
Jedi Lawyer, waving hand: "You don't see any significant similarity to an existing work."
Attorney for the Asimov Estate: "We don't see any significant similarity to an existing work."
Actually it would probably inpractical to one mega-hyperopolis like Trantor or Coruscant. To pave over inch of ground except possibly the
Imperial Gardens, and the remaining wheat fields.
Buildings that would dwarf the hyper modern Ziggurats of Blade Runner's Tyrell Corporation. Casting anyone living in the shadow of anything below the 30th floor in eternal darkness, A real and not a metaphorical underclass as Walter Mosley illustrates in his dystopian anthology
"Futureland" That Harry Harrison would revisit a a generation after Asimov in the works of the transparasteel and stainlesssteel rat, Jim DeGriz.
A Calcutta sized NYC also features in the one real adaptation of Harrison's work; the ode to ZPG; Soylent Green.
I'm still trying to figure out how Trantor got to be the seat of the Galactic Senate in the Star Wars movies.
Jedi Lawyer, waving hand: "You don't see any significant similarity to an existing work."
Attorney for the Asimov Estate: "We don't see any significant similarity to an existing work."
Heh. Thanks for the good chuckle that brought, James!
Vision of the present, courtesy of "mikey" at Sadly No! blog.
The other morning I got up, made a cup of coffee, and since I like the rain, I went upstairs and watched the raindrops fall from my spare room. A woman, hell, she coulda been my mom, walked into view, and started going through the dumpsters in the rain. She was hungry. Fuck man, what kind of a country are we when a 50-something woman needs to eat fucking garbage in the rain to survive?
I ran down barefoot in the rain to give her twelve dollars, all the cash I had, but jeezus christ, folks, what is it we have built, and what exactly are we supposed to be proud of?
mikey
The Empire State Building will no longer be New York’s largest building; it will probably be replaced by a giant Starbucks.
Starbucks is PEOPLE! It's made of PEOPLE!!
Needless to say, such predictions are utterly worthless.
In reality, by the end of this century, humans aren't going to be around, one way or the other. Or if they are, they won't be significant in terms of what's going on around the planet.
When you consider the applications of nanotechnology over the next ninety frickin' years, plus the inevitability of AI of some sort, plus another ninety years of the development of physics, things - including humans and human society - simply aren't going to look anything like what you expect.
And there's no comparison with the previous ninety years because none of the primary technologies developed in the last ninety years come even close to matching the impact of those that will developed in the next ninety. Aircraft, cars, none of that. Computers, maybe, but only as the basis for information technology. Lasers, communications technology, none of it is as ubiquitous and devastating as the potential for nanotech, biotech, and further advances in computer science.
Also, those three areas will cross-fertilize each other far more than previous technologies. Nanotech will end up subsuming bio-tech because biology is all just molecules (although biological SELF-ORGANIZATION will be useful in creating nanotech devices.) And of course figuring out how the brain works - via nanotechnology - will enable far more effective computers and eventually brain modification - again, via nanotech.
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Heads in the Sand
"doctors will make people happy by implanting chips in their heads"
One hundred years from now? There won't even be heads anymore, much less chips.
Posted by Gary Sugar | December 30, 2007 5:41 PM