fiction science

Flying with birds

2010 . Dec . 14

You wouldn’t be able to tell from comments posted directly on the site (because evidently my ‘readers’ don’t post comments), but I’ve actually gotten a lot of questions IRL about how I think people will be able to plug into machines. Specifically, you might remember an earlier post about how much I’d like to control [...]

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What do nano-photonics have to do with virtual pets and zombies?

2010 . Dec . 1

So, this morning at work I read an interesting bit about silicon nano-photonic CMOS chips from IBM. And, while this crap-hole of a blog is probably the last place you’d look to find information about such developments, it’s still a good outlet for some sci-fi sort of thinking about the future. What follows started out [...]

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Is this the Future of Google Wave Servers? I think so…

2010 . Apr . 23

I’m a big fan of Google Wave, but I think it’s really hard to imagine using in conjunction with e-mail.  And it seems to me that the chatty, e-maily features that you see in your browser might not be the really important future of Wave.  The UI is cool, don’t get me wrong, and it [...]

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Oh man! Feynman, you just blew my f*ing mind!!

2009 . Dec . 3

This guy just blew my f*ing mind!  Richard Feynman a “clever insect” that knows everything that happens in a pool by standing on the surface of the water.  Wouldn’t it be clever if humans could do that, too? All yours for the low, low price of… six minutes (that will probably blow your mind). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjHJ7FmV0M4

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