cc OHS: Reminder: Addendum to work-place codex re allowable cases of wearing of shades at daylight necessary, also vamp. warning sign/button.
Mgt.
]]>By the way - I guess I would rather like to read a short, commented timeline of the then-current big things in SF for the last 20 years or so. Cyberpunk, New Space Opera, Singularity, Games ... ?
]]>What is the religious equivivalent to users forced to use different OSes (e.g. at home, at the workplace)?
What happens if one uses a virtual machine?
And what is the OS of the big pantheons, i.e. Paganism or contemporary Hinduism?
]]>Coming back full circle, this could mean that computer science also is a religion.
(Which brings to mind 1960s SF with big central computers interpreting the law, creating the one and only just society (or the one and only dictatorship-by-code))
]]>Two SF-references to it: One is of course Banks' Culture utopia, with resonances to parts of the concurrent Basic Income debate (opening up humanities potential in the arts, creativity etc. etc.).
The other, somewhat more bleak science fictional debate on basic income is the background story to the Corey-Expanse-series - most of the population of Earth lives on "basic", to the contempt of the protags. One nice detail: If you want to study, you have to work first for a year or two, to show you're worth a costly academic education.
And you are right: All this is as much a debate on time as on money.
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