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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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Ad blocking and the end of the columnist, Part 2
Continued from Part 1 Who will write in the 21st century? So, if we’re pushing to a new paradigm where the platform is the publisher, who’s doing the writing? We are. The Crowd. Seriously, it’s already happening. CNN and ABC … Continue reading →
Posted in Economics, Technology, Writing
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Tagged Advertising, Crowdsourcing, The Awl, The Economist, The New Yorker, WSJ
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Thought-reading patents increasing
Strangely, just a few days after writing my mind-reading post, I see this headline: “Surge in US ‘brain-reading’ patents” in my BBC news feed. (Yes, I read the BBC.) Serendipity? Who knows, the wife thinks I can read minds. Anyway. … Continue reading →
Why I get my news from the BBC
Yes, I am an American and I use the BBC for my news. You get a better quality of writing than in the US (save perhaps the New York Times and WSJ) and it also provides a filter for American hype. The … Continue reading →
Posted in Economics, Meta
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Tagged BBC, economics, news, The Economist, Yellow journalism
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Still working on tech, drop by the Albino tree site for some culture
I’m working slowly today, as my back is still complaining about Saturday’s gardening efforts. I did get a little walk in, and a post up which i had been working on at the ‘culture’ site, Albinotree.net. It is my little … Continue reading →
Shattering the monolith
The monolith: Pat Hayden Jones, Renegade, 220,000 words (before a couple attempts to slash & burn), a history of a character, a universe I’ve been musing about for many years. And, finally, after a massive push in 2014, ignoring kith and … Continue reading →
Real life gets in the way: Retooling and the drought
At the end of 2014, I had to completely shift focus in my Real Job, which supports four other people, three households, and a cat. So, that job has to have priority. Writing is a time and money sink so … Continue reading →
Posted in Meta, Writing
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Tagged editors, evil, PHJ, responsibility, scifi, VMWare
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Brazilians, apheresis and the Holidays
I have given up trying to determine why Brazilians keep hitting my site. Evidently, they arrive at the site and immediately run away. None were caught in my net of Brazilian-baiting (post now deleted), probably as I had written in English, not … Continue reading →
What to do while stuck on a plane/at an airport? Edit, of course.
Well yes I will have a few hours to spare tomorrow, traveling as I am from the Left coast to the Levant. Hey, it’s business but I get one day at the beach, and after the wretched weather here lately … Continue reading →
“Bjorn & Bread” Prologue
I like Scott McGowan’s style: “They may not be the biggest, strongest or the most handsome” via “Bjorn & Bread” Prologue. Ya know, I’m tired of heroes that are too cute, too perfect, too smart. We need more heroes like … Continue reading →
GRAPHICS COMING!
The incomparable Alexa (see her page here) has done up some cool stuff, like this Space Commission patch, Mayana’s cosmetics bag, and Jones’s favorite tech item, the gravity boots. Her spaceship picture is my new masthead pic, nice!
