Sunday, February 10, 2019

science fiction to business proposals

Isn't it time for the science fiction of the 70s to transcend into the business proposals of the 20s ?

Sf has already seeped into literature, with works on the Singularity blurring the line between sf and near future technology. 


Thanks to Elon Musk we have  reusable space launchers ,though no space elevators yet.
There is some talk of  nano machines on the interwebs, but mostly some clips on 9gag ,  which we know wouldn't lie.
There are robots everywhere except in the daily life - robots on the production line,  computer vision assisted quality control,   robots with guns, robots with machine guns, walking robots, horse robots, dog robots .. .and this is not counting the retail /consumer robots. The field of moving weapons, autonomous or remote controlled, has taken off. (snort snort)
There are now remote control planes and unmanned cars.

We can edit genes and make super babies (CRISPR?).

Gibson's stuff is almost true, leaving aside space travel. There is the matrix, wearable devices are nudging the barrier to reality,  glasses that beams feed into your eye directly while being connected to the internet...
Stross's wearable cameras on cops are real in some places already, so are digital, within-game valuables. The dark web supposedly exist, and south american drug lords supposedly use neural networks to set prices of cocaine (?)

All of this remains highly energy negative, as in burns ton of hydrocarbon to move people and charge machines. Cold fusion is not here, neither is a cure for cancer.

Cryptonomicon's crypto currency is here, so is  Gibson's idoru.




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