I push this idea to pretty much its limit in my story “Aspiration Value” (free online: http://compellingsciencefiction.com/stories/aspirationvalue.html). The protagonist owns exactly one thing: a garment rack with three wheels that she rescued from the trash, which holds the clothes she’s paid to wear in order to advertise them.
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Why the Future of Stuff Is Having More and Owning Less http://bit.ly/2tq63nN
To read later.
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Genomic Vaccines Fight Disease in Ways Not Possible Before #medicine
Vaccines composed of DNA or RNA, instead of protein, could enable rapid development of preventives for infectious diseases
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/genomic-vaccines/
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‘Biological Teleportation’ Edges Closer With Craig Venter’s Digital-to-Biological Converter http://bit.ly/2tkVrXw
It’s not coming for a few years yet, probably, but it is coming, and any scenario you can imagine is likely to be possible.
Via Singularity Hub. People my age can look forward to having home robotics to help them in old age.
https://www.recode.net/2017/6/19/15832744/robots-teslas-home-ai-market-share-robotics-kuka
An easy-to-use, easy-to-customise, immersive VR platform sounds like a thing that will succeed, especially given the experience Linden Lab brings to the project.
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New Virtual World Sansar Is Ready to Pick Up Where Second Life Left Off http://bit.ly/2tDcvps
With what we know about behavioural reinforcement, I can see this.
After all, we’re already used to following our machines’ cues and reminders.
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“AI is emotionless but it’s not inherently neutral, fair or unbiased.”
We train AI with our biases. Knowing this, we can train AI to promote better behavior to counter those biases.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/using-ai-program-humans-behave-better-dennis-r-mortensen
This interests me primarily because the primitive steampunk not-yet-computers in the Gryphon Clerks series use fiber optics. (When I researched it, I was surprised and pleased to discover that glass fiber was invented in the early 19th century. Not that it would have stopped me if it hadn’t been, but it’s nice to know that that technology level is capable of producing optical fiber. And, unlike the early Victorians, my engineers have the ability to produce a reliable, maybe even coherent, light source.)
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Deep Learning at the Speed of Light on Nanophotonic Chips http://bit.ly/2sOU97z
You know how, in fiction, often there’s a cure possible so the infected character (who we don’t want to die) can be saved at the last minute, and possibly so that the cure can be a McGuffin for the characters to go after?
Here’s a way to justify that in your near-future pandemic technothriller.
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Designing Antiviral Proteins via Computer Could Help Halt the Next Pandemic http://bit.ly/2sPstPF