Category Archives: SFF Thought Starters

Oct 01

The most interesting stuff to me is buried near the end, with frictionless payment taken to its ultimate extreme:…

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The most interesting stuff to me is buried near the end, with frictionless payment taken to its ultimate extreme: you just go about your life, and payment happens in the background.

This is already true for many of us for things like utility bills, and certainly for subscriptions. It obviously has its risks, if you’re anywhere close to a cash emergency or if you do something expensive without realising it, but because it’s safe enough if you’re living habitually within your means, and it’s super-convenient, I’m sure it will get wide adoption.

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3 Big Ways Tech Is Disrupting Global Finance

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Sep 28

I can see my Auckland Allies character Sparx making something like this. Only his would probably be magical as well.

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I can see my Auckland Allies character Sparx making something like this. Only his would probably be magical as well.

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What would it be like to see magnetic fields? Stephin Merritt is great, but you can also do it with an Arduino!!!

If you carry a smartphone around in your pocket, you have a GPS navigation system, a compass, an altimeter, and a very powerful computer at your fingertips. It’s the greatest navigational device ever created. To use this sextant of the modern era you’ve…

http://hackaday.com/2018/09/28/give-yourself-a-sixth-sense-with-an-arduino/

Sep 25

Programmable matter wrapped around non-programmable matter! That’s genius!

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Programmable matter wrapped around non-programmable matter! That’s genius!

(I wrote a novella about programmable matter: http://csidemedia.com/gu. But I never thought of this.)

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This Robotic Skin Makes Inanimate Objects Move https://suhub.co/2IgSkoP

Sep 24

An idealistic, perhaps naive, but laudable vision of AIs used for the betterment of humanity.

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An idealistic, perhaps naive, but laudable vision of AIs used for the betterment of humanity. The problem I see with it is that making things widely available has historically not led to their use primarily by people with elevated moral consciousness and high ideals; rather the opposite.

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Instilling the Best of Human Values in AI https://suhub.co/2N1ihtc