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Dreaming in Infrared
by Marcus Pregent
I can’t feel my legs anymore. But then, I quit feeling pretty much anything eons ago. I lay here against a cold brick building in an alley with graffiti-covered walls. The tinkling sound of hydraulic fluid leaking out of my now useless legs roars in my hyper-amplified ears. I’m bathed in light; red, blue, and pulsing like the slowing of my heartbeat. Funny how things get clearer the closer to death you get…
I’m not sure when it was exactly that the tech addiction set in. All I do know is that it’s been a mad monkey on my back for longer than I care to think about. Perhaps it was that skinwatch or maybe it was the neural processor and interface plugs. All I wanted was to get that promotion at work, at first. Sooner than I could’ve thought possible that lead to criminal activity to fund my habit. Once I’d gotten a taste of the Net, I had to have more! I mean direct, neural interface, not through some lame VR goggles. The power and feel of the new tech ‘neath my skin was too powerful to escape. It made crystal meth look like Sanka.
Continue reading “Dreaming in Infrared”Is lawyering up premeditation?
Meanwhile, in Australia … a mining company, Rio Tinto apologizes for blowing up 46,000-year-old sacred indigenous site in Australia’s Pilbara region. Which was half-arsed, especially considering that they lawyered up beforehand. This hypocrisy was pointed out by Australia’s satirical news service, the Chaser, who quipped Indigenous group apologise after accidentally blowing up Rio Tinto’s headquarters.
Continue reading “Is lawyering up premeditation?”Will the Facebook fix be a drug Europe turns down?
This article about Facebook threatening to pull out of Europe is like a ‘dorph addict saying the drug needs them more than they need it. (The article is doing the rounds on sites like Futurism and SocialMediaToday, along with some discussion on Slashdot) Most of which feeds my carefactor of zero. However, this does serve as an example of corporate bully-boy tactics that can do wrong.
Continue reading “Will the Facebook fix be a drug Europe turns down?”Changing the game with ubiquitous micro-computers
The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer with the same capacities as a laptop or desktop, but with less power. These micro-systems are used to embed web-technology and help create the Internet of Things (IoT). I have used them to create a micro-webserver and a cloud-based file sharing. So let’s have a look at how these cheap little bad boys can be used in a cyberpunk setting.
Continue reading “Changing the game with ubiquitous micro-computers”Quantum processing expands the mind
IBM sets the goal of a 1000 qubit computer by 2023 and in the last year, there are been a lot of talk about the revolutionary effect of Quantum computing on the world. So now is the time to break it down and look at how to add it to your game.
Continue reading “Quantum processing expands the mind”Clone Insurance
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I have never doubted God’s Wisdom in that He knew what He was doing when He didn’t give babies the ability to remember being sustained in liquid (that they don’t actually breathe) and transitioning to air. They go through this horrible trauma without any lasting memory. The experience of using lungs the first time is akin to the panic of drowning in air, like a goldfish that has been dropped while cleaning it’s bowl. It works out for us, not undo much for the goldfish. I certainly understand why babies cry during this transition. I was in warm liquid and suddenly not. I hacked up the nastiest stuff imaginable. I convulsed and hacked… and twitched… trying in vain to expel the remaining liquid. God spared me this memory when I was born a couple lifetimes ago. Technology did not.
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