Tech Links, sent by my Dad.

[wolven7]

A Clockwork Orange - [Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Second Movement - Abridged]--- Unmanned field robots, to reduce casualty risks, in war. One step closer to playing chess to decide wars.

UK firm to unveil wall-socket PC

The great part about this is the insane portability this allows computing. All you need is a bit of flash memory, wireless access, and you're set. Unfortunately there's only one built-browser, and it's IE, which means some people will refuse it. But Jeebus, what a start. Also, think about how hot the wall will get.... Hmm.. Unless the material it's made out of is a heat-sink.

Tom Waits - [Warm Beer and Cold Women]--- And that is your tech news, for today.

Comments

[lupusfeuer.livejournal.com]

On a related note, the technology to send mass data over power lines, through AC wall sockets and down the power cable of a device has been around since the 60's. My mother used to pirate CATV (in the days before cable) over a system that involved no direct input, only knowledge of which wall socket carried the signal. The problem currently is with how transformers are designed, though there are several firms currently developing fluid conducting transformers that will allow dataflow over powerlines. This will equate to nearly a five hundred fold increase in available bandwidth whilst eliminating the need for a sedondary set of hardware to handle data.

I lust for this day.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

That makes me pretty damned happy. People just need to learn to innovate, again, and get new jobs. Tht's the main market force that keeps people from doing new, beneficial things: Complacency. The other is greed.

[unknownbinaries.livejournal.com]

Between this and the above comment, we are DAMN CLOSE TO SENTIENT HOUSES.

Just keep that conversation on the porch in mind. We will all either die as the house goes mad, or become like unto Technological Gods.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Or one, then the other, or the other, then the first one. Or all of the above :)

[raoin.livejournal.com]

i dont see why it has to go to either extreme. dont get me wrong, i always side on the cautious point of paranoia, that the whole house will go mad and eat me and i should prepare for that day... but part of me just can be Susie Sunshine *tm* and thusly turns and tries to find the balance point...

things wont go heniously wrong, our houses wont eat us,
but we wont be like unto technological gods either,
just
y'know
better.

i get just a little twitchy these days when i read sci-fi, cause its getting so close. and i get especially twitchy when i read doom and gloom schi-fi, which is all of it. but i'd like to think that if not utopia or paradise, then not hell or damnation either.

Trends in the writers

[karishi.livejournal.com]

There's been a big push recently (on 'count of some successes in the practice with wormholes and nanites) for writers to keep up with present science journals and work some present tech into near-future sci-fi. I respect it, but I don't think it's good to have sci-fi no longer attached to the fantasy or horror genres. What about CS Lewis?

The point of this, really, is that a lot of it's so close because the writers aren't often coming up with things out of the blue anymore. They're extrapolating from technology that exists, so of course it's near.