Peter Diamandis, so apply a 90% hype discount as usual, but some interesting ideas that would make for good fiction in the next wave of cyberpunk.
Originally shared by Singularity Hub
How the Spatial Web Will Transform Every Element of Our Careers https://suhub.co/2ErIvWa
Fans of Lois McMaster Bujold will have the phrase “uterine replicator” ringing in their heads at this point.
Originally shared by Singularity Hub
Disrupting Reproduction: Two New Advances in Tech-Assisted Baby-Making
If literary fiction isn’t formulaic, then why can so much of it be summarized as “Broken people descend through helplessness into hopelessness?”
Discuss.
Originally shared by Standout Books
In broad strokes, genre fiction foregrounds story, literary fiction foregrounds character.
Find out more with ‘What You Need To Know About Literary Fiction’.
Self-Rescuing Princess Society will enjoy this one.
Turns out that the exclusion of female and non-Western philosophers from the canon is a relatively recent project.
Originally shared by Irina T.
”Another crucial female Muslim philosopher is Nana Asma’u (1793-1864) from the Sokoto Caliphate in today’s northern Nigeria. Like other girls and boys before British colonisation, Asma’u started school when she was five. Her father was a scholar who argued for women’s rights, and he chatted with her daily about reading and writing, as Jean Boyd and Beverly Mack outline in their ground-breaking collections of her texts and life. In adult life, Asma’u became a political leader and a founder of the educational network Yan Taru (‘The Associates’), which is still active today. She wrote in the Fulfulde, Hausa and Arabic languages, and her first text had the fitting title: ‘Warning for the Negligent and Reminder for the Intelligent Regarding the Ways of the Pious’. She argued for humility between people, and for
good relations with one’s relatives, servants, and comrades. This is shown by being cheerful with them; doing good things for them; serving them; never acting as if superior to them; consulting them in many matters; helping them financially and physically; not coveting their possessions; not covering up any of their blameworthy affairs that one may discover, and not excusing them for such things; not boasting to them of wealth, position, or nobility; visiting their sick ones; and offering them advice without any pretence or excessive conceit.”
Plentiful hackables for a cyberpunk present.
Originally shared by HACKADAY
Liberating the Birds: electric scooter hacking has taken an interesting twist.
A few months ago, several companies started deploying electric scooters on the sidewalks of cities around the United States. These scooters were standard, off-the-shelf electric scooters made in China, loaded up with battery packs, motors, and a ‘brain…
http://hackaday.com/2018/12/07/liberating-birds-for-a-cheap-electric-scooter/
Not so easy.
Originally shared by Singularity Hub
The Promise—and Complications—of Domestic Robots
For me, the important things about Le Guin were her focus on the many possible ways of being human; her clear, effortless style; and the interiority of her stories.
You?
Originally shared by Standout Books
Great authors find, and inspire, a kind of sympathy for their protagonists.
Find out more with ‘3 Ways Ursula K. Le Guin Can Help You Improve Your Writing’.
Yeah, this is about as problematic as you’d think.
Originally shared by Singularity Hub
Britain Is Developing an AI-Powered Predictive Policing System
Originally shared by Judah Richardson
Abandoned coal mines across the UK could be brought back to life as huge underground farms, according to academics.
Mine shafts and tunnels are seen as “the perfect environment” for growing food such as vegetables and herbs.
The initiative is seen as a way of providing large-scale crop production for a growing global population.
Advocates say subterranean farms could yield up to ten times as much as farms above ground.
I need another pro short story market to open that will take one or more of my stories that have now been round all the existing markets.
That, or I need to do that Makers of Magic collection I’ve been contemplating for years. Short story collections don’t sell too well, though, unless you’re a really big name (and even then, not as well as novels).