Project Blackbox is Sun Microsystems’ approach to a case mod: they’re putting a whole data center in a standard shipping container. Shipping containers are going to be the lego blocks of the next century.
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Mapping Disease
You can watch the next plague coming your way on a map or satellite at HealthMap, a site that puts disease reports from a variety of sources, quick and questionable and slow and sure, on a world map.
Living In The Bard’s World
Arden is a MMORPG under development that will be set in Shakespeare’s England. It’s being developed as a game, an educational environment and a research tool.
FORGOTTEN DRAGONS by David McGillveray
David McGillveray – whose story “His Whore The Vector” appeared on Futurismic last year – is back with an action-packed tale of the secretive front lines of Sino-American rivalry.
Forgotten Dragons
by David McGillveray
Chongqing Municipality, People’s Republic of China, Spring 2026
The night air was wet with mist, the ground cold beneath their bellies.
“What the hell are we doing out here, man?” grumbled Cope. He spoke Mandarin out of custom, even though they were alone. “I thought the plan was to hit the fuel convoy and get out fast like last time.”
Janssen shook his head and returned the night-vision binos to his eyes. “Won’t work.” Continue reading FORGOTTEN DRAGONS by David McGillveray
Riffing On The Future
Ian Pearson has my dream job: he’s a futurologist for British Telecom. IT Wales’ interview with him has got an average of one good SF story idea per sentence (and is pretty scary if you’ve got a fondness for the human race).