Brian David Johnson (ed)'s "The Tomorrow Project" (anthology, free): Annotated table of contents & review
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Editor is an Intel employee, cover says "Presented by Intel", & editor informs us that "All four stories in this collection are based on technologies Intel is currently developing in our labs." So presumably near future science fiction. All are also ... sort of ... geeky, with emphasis more on technology than plot.
Table of contents.
List below is in order of my preference, best first.- [ss] Scarlett Thomas' "The Drop" (B); download text/MP3: Romance in an even more gadgety near future.
- [ff] Markus Heitz's "The Blink of an Eye" (B); download text/MP3: A description of the ultimate smart house...
- Ray Hammond's "The Mercy Dash" (B); download text/MP3: Future of wearable, mobile, & car computers. Story is about a couple's need to reach a hospital several hundred kilometers away as quickly as possible in a car.
- Douglas Rushkoff's "Last Day of Work" (B); download text/MP3: First we reach singularity - machines improve by themselves. Then plenty - machines are still servile. Then nirvana - transformed to some non-material state, with a consciousness blended with rest of mankind.
Full of a lot of modern jargon.
1 comments:
There is another, more recent Tomorrow Project (Seattle) anthology also posted to the site with contributions from Will.i.am, Douglas Rushkoff, and Corey Doctorow and talented amateurs. Same deal, it's free.
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