Kevin Kelly has some fascinating ideas about where science as a practice is going in the next 50 years. Just the topic headings make for crunchy, futurismic reading: compiled negative results, triple blind experiments, combinatorial sweep exploration, and the list goes on.
Monthly Archives: March 2006
“Accelerando”
by Charles Stross
This is a landmark work of sfnal invention, rife with eyeball kicks and ideas, tackling the Singularity and beyond. Just nominated for the Hugo, it may be a bit information-dense for all tastes, but I should think Futurismic readers would dig it.
“China Mountain Zhang”
by Maureen F. McHugh
A beautifully written, moving, and vibrant SF classic–highly recommended.
BellSouth Fights To Close New Orleans’ Free Wi-Fi
One of the more hopeful stories coming out of the Katrina disaster was that the city would open its wi-fi network to anyone wishing to use it for free. As a staunch libertarian, I generally disapprove of the government doing anything that puts it in competition with the private sector, but in this case I’m almost ready to support the government wi-fi program just to see the telecoms screwed. With stories coming out regularly on the email tax and other such shady business practices, I don’t think it’s any wonder that many people harbor ill will against the telecoms and ISPs.
Asteroid Doom More Likely Than Estimates Suggest?
The astronomers are arguing again…some of them think that the estimates of asteroid impact frequency on Earth are hugely optimistic, and that collisions of certain types may be up to ten times more likely than these estimates state.