Yesterday I went to the library and came back with The Big Book of Cyberpunk (Edited by Jared Shurin) and read the above story
It mentions the Metaverse
It has "Crypto Credits"
It has some kind of AI that when asked to do a tax form comes up with a recipe instead
This is from 1995
I had no idea anybody was using the terms "Metaverse" and anything close to cryptocurrency. I guess the concepts have been around for awhile (as well as an error prone AI).
Prophetic? Or am I just out of it?
However, the latter, while chock full of cool ideas, kept crashing my WSOD
to the ground. For example, the opening event of the book has the Moon=20 >blow up, but how and why is never revealed (plus the subsequent orbital >mechanics makes no sense).
Yesterday I went to the library and came back with The Big Book of Cyberpunk (Edited by Jared Shurin) and read the above story
It mentions the Metaverse
It has "Crypto Credits"
It has some kind of AI that when asked to do a tax form comes up with a recipe instead
This is from 1995
I had no idea anybody was using the terms "Metaverse" and anything close to cryptocurrency. I guess the concepts have been around for awhile (as well as an error prone AI).
Prophetic? Or am I just out of it?
On Sunday, January 21, 2024 at 9:34:59 AM UTC-5, D wrote:
I think the the metaverse has been around in many incarnations through sci >> fi for a long time.
Crypto currency I can't think of any good examples.
I liked Neal Stephenson in his early days when the books were about 400
pages or so.
Then he left the sci fi/punk genre and became less interesting. I wish he
would turn back to the style, length and topics of his early days, but I
guess artists evolve.
The earliest cryptocurrency I'm aware of is David Chaum's Digicash, based
on the Blind Signature protocols he invented in 1983.
As for Stephenson, after the Baroque cycle was done, Anathem was decent,
but only SF towards the end, while SevenEves was pure SF.
However, the latter, while chock full of cool ideas, kept crashing my WSOD
to the ground. For example, the opening event of the book has the Moon
blow up, but how and why is never revealed (plus the subsequent orbital mechanics makes no sense).
On 1/21/2024 11:23 AM, pete...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sunday, January 21, 2024 at 9:34:59 AM UTC-5, D wrote:
I think the the metaverse has been around in many incarnations
through sci
fi for a long time.
Crypto currency I can't think of any good examples.
I liked Neal Stephenson in his early days when the books were about 400
pages or so.
Then he left the sci fi/punk genre and became less interesting. I
wish he
would turn back to the style, length and topics of his early days, but I >>> guess artists evolve.
The earliest cryptocurrency I'm aware of is David Chaum's Digicash, based
on the Blind Signature protocols he invented in 1983.
As for Stephenson, after the Baroque cycle was done, Anathem was decent,
but only SF towards the end, while SevenEves was pure SF.
However, the latter, while chock full of cool ideas, kept crashing my
WSOD
to the ground. For example, the opening event of the book has the Moon
blow up, but how and why is never revealed (plus the subsequent orbital
mechanics makes no sense).
Pt
I think it was a wandering black hole that blew up the moon. No, it was probably aliens. No, it was a Russian conspiracy.
That was just the first of many things which killed my WSOD, including a
5000 year old shovel still being in use.
On Monday, January 22, 2024 at 4:20:58 PM UTC-5, Jay E. Morris wrote:
On 1/22/2024 2:39 PM, pete...@gmail.com wrote:
That was just the first of many things which killed my WSOD, including a >>> 5000 year old shovel still being in use.Perhaps it was the shovel of Theseus?
Seeing as this 5000 year old artifact still had the original Sears Roebuck Craftsman label on the wooden handle, no. It's not a carefully preserved relic either; its in use.
Pt
On 1/22/2024 3:49 AM, D wrote:
On Sun, 21 Jan 2024, pete...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sunday, January 21, 2024 at 9:34:59 AM UTC-5, D wrote:
I think the the metaverse has been around in many incarnations through >>>> sci
fi for a long time.
Crypto currency I can't think of any good examples.
I liked Neal Stephenson in his early days when the books were about 400 >>>> pages or so.
Then he left the sci fi/punk genre and became less interesting. I wish he >>>> would turn back to the style, length and topics of his early days, but I >>>> guess artists evolve.
The earliest cryptocurrency I'm aware of is David Chaum's Digicash, based >>> on the Blind Signature protocols he invented in 1983.
As for Stephenson, after the Baroque cycle was done, Anathem was decent, >>> but only SF towards the end, while SevenEves was pure SF.
However, the latter, while chock full of cool ideas, kept crashing my WSOD >>> to the ground. For example, the opening event of the book has the Moon
blow up, but how and why is never revealed (plus the subsequent orbital
mechanics makes no sense).
True, SevenEves was decent! I've come to the conclusion that with the
more modern Stephenson, I only focus on the dialogue and I can skip a
lot of the text in between. That way I get a good story, quick
development, while not having boring descriptions in between. Just like
Game of thrones.
My favourite science fiction is the golden age. A science fiction book
doesn't have to be more than 200-300 pages. ;)
Stephenson should have broken Seveneves into three books, a trilogy. He already split it into three parts.
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