If “female superheroes have adventure and romance in the Napoleonic-era British military” is a premise that appeals to you as much as it does to me, this is a series you should check out.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2127142428?book_show_action=false&from_review_page=1
Story fodder. What about when illness changes your appearance? What about camouflage makeup to fool the systems? What about twins?
Originally shared by Singularity Hub
I Saw Her Face, Now I’m a Believer—Facial Recognition Tech Goes Mainstream http://suhub.co/2x6hoeX
“What if we saw tribalism as a natural malfunction of any cognitive system, silicon or carbon? As neither a universal truth or unavoidable sin, but something to be overcome?”
Originally shared by Jennifer Ouellette
Is Tribalism a Natural Malfunction? What computers teach us about getting along. http://nautil.us/issue/52/the-hive/is-tribalism-a-natural-malfunction
My takeaway from this: I don’t even need to justify how smart devices embedded in or attached to my characters’ bodies are communicating data.
Not that I was planning to attempt to justify that. I’ve been assuming that problem will be solved somehow or other for years.
Originally shared by C. A. Wilke
Low-power device breaks barrier for sending data from afar – Futurity
Holy crap this is kind of amazing. I’m imagining the possibilities for cybernetic implants that can provide data about the body and maybe even feed you data. They made a prototype contact lens, but if this backscatter setup was used both ways, Google Glass and other augmented reality devices could be as unobtrusive as a pair of invisible contact lenses.
Via a private share. I’m putting this under Collective Endeavour because problems of authority arise usually within a few microseconds of deciding to band together for some greater purpose.
I’ve experienced a number of different kinds of authority in my life, and I recognise a lot of them in the Harry Potter series. This piece does a good job of laying them out.
A good interview from a writer with a clear voice.
Originally shared by Self-Rescuing Princess Society
“Most of the science fiction that I read growing up was filled with white men doing white men things—not to say that that’s bad or anything—but it just didn’t attract me. I started writing science fiction because on my trips to Nigeria I would notice technology being used in ways that I thought were unique and specific. When I saw this, I noticed that this is not how this part of the world was being portrayed in literature. So, that kind of made me want to just do it myself. I started writing it, because I wanted to see it. I wanted to read it.”
Have you read any of her work? What did you think? I haven’t, yet, but it’s in the TBR pile.
Short story contest with the theme of Universal Basic Income, which is something I’m interested in.
The prize is $12,000, paid out over a year, which is really a case of putting your money where your mouth is.
https://thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com/Market.aspx?mid=6120#
My wife’s niece refuses to talk to her fiance’s smart house. She thinks talking to a house is weird.
She may have to get used to it.
Originally shared by Singularity Hub
How the Intelligent Home of the Future Will Care For You http://suhub.co/2eX0U1F
This is clever, and metaphorically huge. Because it’s literally very small.
Originally shared by Singularity Hub
Antennas Made 100 Times Smaller to Hook Up Tiny Wearables and Implants http://suhub.co/2gHk6NO
Originally shared by Singularity Hub
VR Promises a Surprising Tech Alternative to Painkillers in Deadly Opioid Crisis