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Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
Then - in 1992ish - there was "convergence". You know the idea that everything (text, graphics, video, speech, phones etc., etc...) would "converge" onto a single "platform". My boss was big on this notion....he thought that the "platform" would be...
Commented on Worldcon in the news
Charlie: 2G is likely to last until 2030 at the earliest! 3G will be abandoned before that. The reason for this is simple: there are millions of so-called "smart meters" hard wired to 2G. Link: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-telecoms-and-internet/information-for-industry/policy/2g-and-3g-switch-off Jamie...
Commented on Made of lies (and more lies)
Well...with AI you need some insight into the technology. Note: Trust in the OWNER of the technology does not count! Technology components: (1) Neural networks (2) Training (3) Large Language Models (LLM) Given the above there are some problems with...
Commented on The gathering crisis
This has been coming for forty years.....some countries had a long term plan in 1980....and some countries haven't got a clue about the phrase "long term plan". Evidence -- GDP numbers 1995 to today: - UK GDP has doubled. Hoorah!...
Commented on Behind the Ukraine war
Economic Relevance of Russia This may not be completely accurate, but in 1990 Russia and China had approximately equal GDP numbers. Today, China's GDP is about x10 Russia's. So the war (and Putin's grandstanding) might just be about useless chest...
Commented on That sinking feeling
Charlie: Irrespective of the actual outcome on and after March 2019, reading your analysis has made me realise one simple thing: EVERYONE (yes EVERYONE) needs to create a personal CONTINGENCY PLAN ahead of next March Some of the comments indicate...
Commented on On the lack of cultural estrangement in SF
Re: The use of current norms in a far future Gandhi was once asked "What do you think about western civilization?" He replied "I think it would be a very good idea."...
Commented on A brief, bitter quiz
If you really want chapter and verse about the long and ugly western interference in the Middle East, try reading "Quicksand" by Geoffrey Wawro. It made my blood boil when I read it.......and the ugly and disastrous interference hasn't stopped...
Commented on Why AIs Won't Ascend in the Blink of an Eye - Some Math
When we talk about "artificial intelligence", do we have any reliable measurements for human intelligence - so that we can reliably compare say IBM Watson with Albert Einstein? Can we measure the objective progress in artificial intelligence implementations from say...

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Ian Mackenzie commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
Apparently the latest trio of astronauts have arrived at the cape, and have ~11 days to come to terms with the fact that (to slightly misquote) "We're sitting on top of 5,000 tons of high explosives, wrapped in five million parts, all passed by Boeing Quality Control". (3000 tons & 3 million parts for the original Saturn V passenger) PS: I think that astronauts would be a bit more detailed than just saying "Oh NO! We're on a BOEING!"...
Mike Collins commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
Not quite the first. I remember reading in the 1960s about a Land Rover equipped with Decca Navigator travelling from Britain to the Paris Airshow....
Howard NYC commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
...and mesh networks, gain value as do with all networks from "N^2" potential interconnections... so if you want to be popular, get populated with more "N" which leads to cities each having itself own illicit network which in turn gets linked together to two or more others, leading to waves of data forwarding in ebbs 'n surges as regards porn, lots of what is illicit is from marginalized groups... despite so many overt homophobes there's serious tonnage of gay porn making the rounds... much of it photographs and short video... but much of it steamy prose no surprise, the gay...
Mayhem commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
The good part of this is that Eudora is still a fantastic email client, the bad part is that everyone still only has 5-10Mb mailboxes and largely works with pop rather than imap, so commercial email archiving is profoundly challenging and sending attachments larger than oh 1Mb is impossible. Mind you we’re also probably still in the world of lotus notes for corporates. Hotmail might be the mass email disrupter of choice....
David L commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
so commercial email archiving is profoundly challenging and sending attachments larger than oh 1Mb is impossible. I have serious mixed feelings about this one. On the one hand, large attachments should not be an issue. On the other people sending emails of files instead of using the server everyone is connected to these days keeps resulting in: "What do you mean I have to much email? Just how what is this 50gig limit?" As they and six others pass back and for emails in a chain with "OK", "Yes", "Approved", "Let's meet on this tomorrow", with the 30 meg attachment...

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Common Misconceptions About Publishing—a series of essays about the industry I work in.
How I Got Here In The End —my non-writing autobiography, or what I did before becoming a full-time writer.
Unwirer—an experiment in weblog mediated collaborative fiction.
Shaping the Future—a talk I gave on the social implications of Moore's Law.
Japan: first impressions — or, what I did on my holidays
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