I was reading through this article, trying to find a story angle that wouldn’t be hard to make interesting, and eventually hit this, near the bottom:

“Dutch startup Nerdalize has begun trials of a solution for the domestic market: customers pay the company to install servers in their homes and receive free heating in exchange.”

Story idea: unbeknown to you, there’s data stored on the server in your home that scary people want to steal or destroy.

Go!

Originally shared by Singularity Hub

Waste Heat: The Overlooked Energy Problem, and How to Solve It https://suhub.co/2nmKdgZ

I refuse to use Gmail’s autosuggested reply “Ok”.

Because the correct capitalization is “OK”.

This kind of “nagged by our tech into decisions we don’t really mean” issue was something I touched on in “Aspiration Value” (though in the final version of the story it got deemphasized a bit): http://compellingsciencefiction.com/stories/aspirationvalue.html

Originally shared by Walter Roberson

Mike Reeves-McMillan for multiple reasons

https://www.fastcompany.com/90205359/google-you-auto-complete-me

Here’s some useful handwavium for you. Comes with a shelf life; a lot of research is going into figuring out what this stuff is actually good for and how to make it do that. But for now, you can probably use it to justify all kinds of crazy materials properties in your SF if you need to.

Originally shared by Singularity Hub

Graphene and Beyond: The Astonishing Properties and Promise of 2D Materials https://suhub.co/2KvRQux

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My almost-finished WIP is full of punched cards. Full.

Originally shared by Winchell Chung

I suddenly had visions of a dystopian zee-rust future with people surfing the web via punch cards. And the piles of cards that would accumulate when reading a flame-war.

https://twitter.com/mainframed767/status/1025023780416966656

Colonising space is a lot harder than, say, colonising Pacific islands. Even though in space you know where you’re going and (more or less) what you’ll find when you get there.

Originally shared by Winchell Chung

David Fickling tweeted:

Here’s a thread about how Polynesian war canoes prove that humans are never going to colonize space in any foreseeable future…

https://twitter.com/davidfickling/status/1024923442594738176

Privacy: not really a thing soon.

Originally shared by Singularity Hub

In the Future, We’ll Know Everything—Thanks to This Tech https://suhub.co/2KneLIp