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OK, here’s another link-collection post, but there’s more of a theme to this one: I noticed I had a whole bunch of pieces about the economics of publishing, so why not shove ‘em together and see what juxtapositions we get?
We’ll start with this article discovered at ...
Books
Just in case you thought Tom Maly’s speculations about fabrication tech eradicating Fed Ex were a stretch too far, and that the technologies required are no where near ready… well, you might have a point. But even so, 3D technologies are developing rapidly and cheaply, as ...
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Those of you in the States may not be aware (or even care) that the staff of Royal Mail were recently engaged in wildcat strikes as a protest against the machinations of their management. Much as a lot of us have sympathies with their plight, it’s hard not to see them supplying the nails ...
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You can’t so much as turn sideways without stumbling over this story, especially in the transhumanist and Singularitarian neighbourhoods of the web, and with good reason. So let’s just cut straight to the meat of it:
Scientists, at IBM Research – Almaden, in collaboration ...
Other
I’ve been invited to join a panel on robotics at the upcoming Orycon Science Fiction Convention, so I decided to write about them here, too. I also have a story coming out soon in Analog , called “The Robots’ Girl,” which started when I read an article complaining about robots being developed ...
Books
An alarmingly large amount of the world’s surface is strewn with landmines left behind after conflicts of one sort or another , leaving the locals at risk of death and mutilation long after the dispute that caused them to be laid down has ended (or moved elsewhere).
Scouting for ...
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We’ve all heard of Peak Oil (even if there’s some doubt about whether we’ve heard the truth over when it’s going to actually kick in ), but there’s no need to worry – nuclear power will step in to fill the gap, right? [image courtesy Wikimedia Commons ]
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“Curb your enthusiasm” seems to be the message of a new gadget from Philips Electronics and the Dutch bank ABN AMRO. They decided to collaborate on the “Rationalizer” bracelet system “after research confirmed that day traders sometimes act irrationally because ...
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Thanks to New World Notes , we get a little more detail about Philip Rosedale’s LoveMachine system , the reputation-based closed economy we mentioned yesterday .
Cory Ondrejka was Linden Lab’s CTO until 2007, and he was instrumental in developing the LoveMachine system as it ...
Gaming
Second Life
I guess we can look forward to a new pharmacological trade name appearing in our spam folders in the near future. A failed antidepressant, flibanserin will soon enter clinical trials in the UK to determine whether it’s safe to be marketed as the Female Viagra , accompanied by pointed ...
Other
We’ve surely heard enough stories about how posting status updates on social networks can give away more information about you than you intended , so here’s the positive flipside of that: Rodney Bradford was a suspect in a Brooklyn mugging case, and it’s partly thanks to a ...
Books
Did you hear about the recent exploit of jailbroken jesusPhones? Yeah, the Rick-rolling one (though that wasn’t strictly the original exploit, rather some Australian script-kiddie’s repurposing of a Dutch exploit from earlier in the month ); to sum it all up in a sentence, bad ...
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Oh, to be a CEO of a tech start-up… they can get bored of their projects even faster than the public can, y’know. Actually, that’s a little unfair – Philip Rosedale, the man behind Linden Lab, hasn’t lost interest in Second life so much as he’s looking for a ...
Gaming
Second Life
Does Not Equal is a webcomic by Sarah Ennals – check out the pre- Futurismic archives , and the strips that have been published here previously .
[ Be sure to check out the Does Not Equal Cafepress store for webcomic merchandise featuring Canadians with geometrically-shaped ...
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Sarah Monette
[Editor's note: as should be obvious, this DNE should have run last weekend, but there was some email SNAFU... so this week you get two for the price of one!]
Does Not Equal is a webcomic by Sarah Ennals – check out the pre- Futurismic archives , and the strips that have been ...
Books
Sarah Monette
Here’s some food for thought from occasional Guardian book-blogger and Clarion graduate Damien G Walter . We all know that the book retail industry is in a bit of a pickle on both sides of the pond, but have you considered that it’s one of the few cultural spheres which receives no ...
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OK, before anyone says it, the headline is not to be taken as medical advice (I am not a doctor, nor do I play one on television, etc, etc). But research into surprisingly low incidences of swine flu in France in recent months suggests that the common cold may be suppressing the ability of the ...
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NASA has taken a step into the rough-and-tumble world of conspiracy theory by posting a point-by-point debunking of the 2012 apocalypse meme , brought to public prominence by the recent movie based upon it [image by auntjojo ] . You’ve got to admire the blunt certainty of it – ...
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2012
By way of an experiment, I thought I’d round up a handful of links which made for interesting reading, but about which I felt no particular urge to editorialise (or waffle tangentially, if there’s any measurable difference between the two in my case) . If you like the format, let me ...
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futurismic.com - 9 days ago
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Serendipity, yet again… Jonathan’s latest Blasphemous Geometries column
on the moral dimension of modern computer game mechanics
arrived in my inbox last weekend, and hence (unless he has contacts in the industry of which I am unaware), he’d have had no idea that this week ...
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But is it art? Modern Warfare 2, computer games and morality
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