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Another installment to Charles Stross’ series “Accelerando” , the Novelette “Elector” has made an appearance in the September 2004 issue ofAsimov’s This all started back in “Lobsters” (June 2001) which started with this. Read it on line here at (on) Continue reading Elector
From vowe dot net The difference between potentially and realistically very funny.
From Cringely The Big Picture Current displays are controlled by transistors that switch on and off, and those switches are made by melting silicon on a glass plate. This is hard, expensive and does scale well. That’s why really big Continue reading Rolltronics Display Backplane Technology, Can you say Video Wallpaper?
Over the past month or so a couple of article’s have come to my attention that seem to indicate the beginning of a new computing architecture on several fronts. Part of it is the failure of Intel’s Itanium 64 bit Continue reading Is this the Sound of the other shoe droping?
In “The Atrocity Archives” Charles Stross has produced a story which blends Lovecraft / Illuminati / HellBoy, with SlashDot, and a dash of John Le Carre to produce High-Tech Horror Spy novel, and it’s good! Very difficult to put down, Continue reading Neuromancer Meets The Exorcist.
Daivd Brin has a article on Salon.com (Aug 3 2004) : We will watch the watchers on the importance of using our new surveillance technology to “watch the watchers” Each time the lesson is the same one: that professionals should Continue reading We will watch the watchers