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This blog is about technology, the future, and science fiction. Some posts are about our world's current tech. Others will focus on what could be. I'll post some stories of the future to muse about how strange things could really get if humans ever make it to the stars.
Or, how much they might stay the same.
STATUS OF THE MS: Nearly done! I have taken the lessons from workshopping it, and from reading some other seminal works of Sci-Fi to squeeze out all but the tension, conflict, excitement and, I hope, satisfaction of characters who struggle and only just overcome their challenges and themselves.
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Monthly Archives: June 2014
Elon Musk on patents: “too often these days they serve merely to stifle progress”
Well whaddaya know, here I am, near-unknown blogger writing (post1, post2) about IP Seizure and how patents are working to lock up innovation, and along comes Elon Musk to back me up here. Quote from Mr. Musk: “When I started out with … Continue reading
Seagulls and Rockstars, the crime of Pat Hayden Jones
In the tech industry here in the US, there is a term for the stone-cold experts that local teams call in to present new concepts or address problems a customer is having: ‘Rockstar.’ In the heady days before the 2008 … Continue reading
The scarcity of entrepreneurship
I’m reading William Scholz’s excellent post on the future economies here. He has some very incisive observations about the direction we’re going regarding production – in this case, production of concepts and ideas. And he posits the demise of the … Continue reading
Pat Hayden Jones 