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@The Architect of Tartaros: Holding up your right hand, point to where you're from.
You know how that works, you've been doing it all your life. #sfanarchists
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@Sean Keller: F or the Yoopers, here's the other hand. We drive from 'Sconsin across the UP to Alpena every summer- I love the UP, especially the last 90 minutes before the bridge, when you drive along the dunes and beaches of Lake Michigan. I loves my fudge, too. #sfanarchists
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Here's Common Action's recommended reading list distributed to attendees:
Zainab Amadahy: The Moons of Palmares
MT Anderson: Feed
Iain M. Banks: Consider Phlebas, The Player of Games, Use of Weapons
Octavia Butler: Parable of the Sower, Parable of the Talents
Samuel R. Delany: Triton
Cory Doctorow: Little Brother, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
L. Timmel Duchamp: Alanya to Alanya, Renegade, Tsunami, Blood in the
Fruit, Stretto
Eileen Gunn: Stable Strategies and Others
Nalo Hopkinson: Midnight Robber, So Long Been Dreaming (Ed.)
Ursula K. LeGuin: The Dispossessed, Always Coming Home, Four Ways to
Forgiveness
Saab Lofton: A.D.
Ken MacLeod: The Star Fraction, The Stone Canal, The Cassini Division
China Mieville: Iron Council, Un Lun Dun, Perdido Street Station
Alan Moore: V for Vendetta
Grant Morrison: The Invisibles
Pat Murphy: The City, Not Long After
Chris Newport: The White Bones of Truth
Marge Piercy: Woman on the Edge of Time, He She and It
Philip Pullman: The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass
Kim Stanley Robinson: Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars, Antarctica
Joanna Russ: The Female Man
Nisi Shawl: Filter House
Starhawk: The Fifth Sacred Thing
Charles Stross: Singularity Sky, Iron Sunrise
Michael Swanwick: The Iron Dragon's Daughter
Amy Thompson: The Color of Distance
Brian K. Vaughan: Y The Last Man
Brian Wood and Riccardo Burchelli: DMZ #sfanarchists
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I can't imagine a Coruscant type city-scape, that totally displaces these structures. A group of 10 citizens will stop it from happening.
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Which explains the entire layout of Boston.
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She was a person, then she died, like people have done for thousands of years.
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In her case that was a mistake, because what was lost we have no machines to bring back (yet?), but that doesn't change the point. Her organism was enhanced by technological addition. It is not what one thinks of when thinking posthumanism, but it fits the basic template.
03/26/09
The machinery kept some cells alive for a while.
And she certainly wasn't the first person in this condition, just the most famous.
03/26/09
Screw the jet packs, where's my damn Mandarin language course in pill form?! Science fiction has been promising us a pedagogical revolution for decades. Nothing yet.
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Sounds like a futurist conference to me. The problem is that all the futurist theories I ever hear are actually quite pedestrian theories hatched long ago, but dressed up somehow in the language of technology.
Just look at the idea that we're "compiling" our personalities from moment to moment? That sounds very much like an argument that could have been hatched two hundred years ago, but jazzed up by the use of the computer-lingo term "compiling" which then suggests that maybe we're all programmed!..... WHOAHHHHH. DUUUUUUDE. MY MIND....
Quite frankly, I think all the futurist conferences that have ever taken place are of less value to actual human thinking than 5 pages of Baudrillard.
03/26/09
Also kudos for clear thinking to cletar.
03/26/09
Its one where we share an augmented reality world, we have far less physical products, and (most importantly) we act as a collective hive-mind but only in so far that we are each individuals constantly contributing knowledge and answers.
Which are already doing (Google, Wikipedia etc).
I see the future just as am more instant, structured, form of that.
A semanticaly linked knowledge and preposal database, to be exact.
(A "preposal" is any suggested or arguement of something that could or should be done or made...which can be broken down into smaller goals needed to achieve it....many of the smaller goals could also help different preposals, of course...so it becomes clear whats the most usefull things to work on)
Individualy is a strength that we can use systematicaly.
I strongly believe for every problem in the world someone...somewhere...has an answer. We just gota link the questions to the answers.
oh and;
"only speculative fiction novels really put the individual's choices at the center of the story"
Am I the only one that thinks this is rather arrogant?
Because it seems to me the choices and power of an individual is a common theme in novels accross all genre's.
03/26/09
2)meh, I know the exact future.
3) you can't possibly be for real. Are you even out of high school?
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I strongly believe for every problem in the world someone...somewhere...has an answer.
The problem is that for every problem, there are a million different versions of 'the problem', and therefore a million different answers. Have you ever tried to get several people to agree on a pizza order? It's like that, but x1000. Oh, and no matter how you order the pizza people die.
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Oh, and if being "post-human" means being Terri Schiavo brain-dead--uh, no thanks.
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