Category Archives: futures

Clarke got it crooked

Posted on Saturday, 2002 November 30 by Anton

Any technology indistinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. Essay by Vanessa Layne.

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if the inmates controlled The Matrix

Posted on Sunday, 2002 September 15 by Anton

I often ponder what life might be like among Uploads: human minds which have been scanned into machines, leaving the flesh behind and spending most of their time in simulated worlds. (See, for example, Greg Egan‘s novels Permutation City and … Continue reading →

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absolute or relative?

Posted on Monday, 2002 August 26 by Anton

It’s a good bet that the twenty or thirty of you who read this are brighter than average. (At least it’s always safe to say that, eh?) Suppose that a magic pill makes everyone 3±1 times smarter. What would it … Continue reading →

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the cyberpunk age

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 August 21 by Anton

We’re living in the future: I just got spammed by Hamas.

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ceteris paribus, life is better than death

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 August 21 by Anton

Reason: Forever Young: The new scientific search for immortality. (Thanks to Paul Hsieh for the link.)

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a vignette of daily life in the transhuman age

Posted on Sunday, 2002 July 28 by Anton

Multi-Tasking, by Mike Treder. (Dead link replaced by live link, thanks to Randall Randall, 2005 May 21)

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immortality for pessimists

Posted on Thursday, 2002 July 25 by Anton

Larry Niven wrote, somewhere or other, that if you live long enough you’re bound to get rich at least once. It occurs to me just now that, if you live long enough under an immortal dictatorship, sooner or later you’re … Continue reading →

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