Amazon: http://amzn.to/1U8zFeV
Our world crawling with nasty little alien parasites.
These are the Futurama Brain Slugs... but less cuddly.
Thursday, 30 June 2016
Thursday, 23 June 2016
My #top100 #scifi Num:66 Childhoods End
Amazon: http://amzn.to/1rehque
Independence Day minus the Emmerich cheese.
Thought provoking, awe inspiring classic SciFi.
Friday, 17 June 2016
My #top100 #scifi Num:67 To Sail Beyond the Sunset
Amazon: http://amzn.to/24qwLow
Continuing this run of Heinlein.
In this one we feel the full force of Heinlein's orthogonal views. Lots of sex and taboo breaking. More than a little uncomfortable at times.
Vulnerable to interpretation as the ramblings of a dirty old man.
Question: 'Does author mean that today's amoral is future's normal?'
Answer: Yes.
Monday, 13 June 2016
Absolutely FABulous - Teething Troubles for the Fully Autonomous Business
The FAB (Fully Autonomous Business), or DAC (Distributed Autonomous Corporation), is the self organising cloud platform of the future.
As customers leverage its services it will grow.
It will incentivise the market to expand its infrastructure; concretely this will be people downloading and running its client.
It will scale and expand while demand grows.
A service like AirBnB is a good candidate for FABification. The company owns non of the objects it manages (properties), it only owns (or leases) the data centres it runs on. Re-implemented as a FAB the crowd, rather than the cloud, could provide the infrastructure.
It will be a huge challenge to build this right, but also another opportunity to build back in some of the fairness and friendliness, of the early internet; before it got all filled up with SpamBots and Shills.
Teething Troubles:
http://www.wired.com/2016/06/biggest-crowdfunding-project-ever-dao-mess/
Gartner calls them Autonomous Business, and has a good article too:
http://www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/algorithms-autonomous-business/
Image: PAVEL KOLOMEYETS - https://www.artstation.com/artwork/Ql08
Based on Block Chain technology the FAB will implement a set of algorithms. Running, the algorithms will provide a service which creates value. The FAB uses this value to compensate those that provide its compute and network infrastructure.
It will incentivise the market to expand its infrastructure; concretely this will be people downloading and running its client.
It will scale and expand while demand grows.
A service like AirBnB is a good candidate for FABification. The company owns non of the objects it manages (properties), it only owns (or leases) the data centres it runs on. Re-implemented as a FAB the crowd, rather than the cloud, could provide the infrastructure.
It will be a huge challenge to build this right, but also another opportunity to build back in some of the fairness and friendliness, of the early internet; before it got all filled up with SpamBots and Shills.
Teething Troubles:
http://www.wired.com/2016/06/biggest-crowdfunding-project-ever-dao-mess/
Gartner calls them Autonomous Business, and has a good article too:
http://www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/algorithms-autonomous-business/
Image: PAVEL KOLOMEYETS - https://www.artstation.com/artwork/Ql08
Sunday, 12 June 2016
AI Authors and Poets = Computational Propaganda
This is one of the key plot devices for my book.
AI driven Computational Propaganda creating tailored content.
Once the AIs start writing our media, its only a matter of time before the Spin Doctors warp the torrent to their whims.
AI driven Computational Propaganda creating tailored content.
Once the AIs start writing our media, its only a matter of time before the Spin Doctors warp the torrent to their whims.
also:
Friday, 10 June 2016
My #top100 #scifi Num:68 The Number of the Beast
Amazon: http://amzn.to/25H6V5z
Magic and technology get mashed up, linking many of his worlds in one improbable multiverse.
I like it.
I haven't read this book for a few decades, so excuse me if you find it little more than indulgent teenage fun.
This quote pretty much sums it up:
'a transdimensional gizmo that means all his characters can meet up with each other and characters from other books, and, as often as not, end up having sex'
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