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I agree with other commenters that changing the media paradigm is a good way to go; I'm not sure the optimal way to go about it. For one thing, any media revamp that's not just changing the name of the...
Commented on That "Annihilation Score" spoiler thread you're all asking for
what I found jarring - though obvious in hindsight - was the immediate and blindingly fast plummet of Mo off the pedestal that she inhabits when seen from Bob's point of view. Especially when I read her fantasizing about Lecter...
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In reference to "GNU Terry Pratchett" in internet headers: I say "Internet" because things have gone a bit Quantum and have moved well beyond the realm of merely web headers. As well as instructions for nearly every web server, web...
Commented on Some rambling thoughts on region restrictions
Lois McMaster Bujold recently had her ebook licensing expire and is now managing all ebook sales herself. However I suspect that was a VERY old deal and not generally an option under most circumstances. It's also a slightly odd situation...

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opsec commented on Sucker bet (a thought experiment)
There's a Sci-Fi already written about this (from Germany) http://www.andreaseschbach.de/werke/romane/billion/billion.html...
bertiebond commented on Sucker bet (a thought experiment)
Although I hate his books (his writing style is as exciting as a 15 year old GCSE student) Dan Brown's Inferno probably is a good short cut way to explain what I want to achieve. A significant proportion of the worlds problems - pollution, conflict, resource scarcity, Global warming, poverty etc - is in someway influenced by TOO MANY PEOPLE. Can't kill em all. And like hell voluntary family planning education is efficient enough. Enforced sterility on a world wide scale. Use my billions to pay for research That or spend it all training/cyber-upgrading myself into the ultimate assassin ninja...
Rick Adams commented on Sucker bet (a thought experiment)
Billions, Fiat money only means something by persistent agreement so for the fiction, and in real life, one would probably not want to destroy the structures that maintain its worth.. at least until preferred structures are available and proven. It is unlikely one could develop a single biological agent that appropriately targets populations in a way that can allow the rapid reforestation that is needed. Distribution methods are available, the Haj, Christmas, New Year, Thanksgiving and other celebrations. Existing illnesses, even if they are only available in electrical recording or presumable various bio-war repositories (Russian) can thus repurposed ( the...
Gerald Fnord commented on Sucker bet (a thought experiment)
Investments, whether in fiat money or any other, also get tricky: Selling-off any substantial amount of what you've got would likely cause a change in value of whatever you didn't sell. The coupling between the monetary value of investments and—I'll call it the 'effective value'—would seem to 'run' for high values, decreasing. (See: 'running coupling constant'.)...
LAvery commented on Sucker bet (a thought experiment)
An interesting read relevant to this post (although Abigail Disney is probably not in the $100G range). What It’s Like to Grow Up With More Money Than You’ll Ever Spend...

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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
Inside the MIT Media Lab—what it’s like to spend a day wandering around the Media Lab.
The High Frontier, Redux — space colonization: feasible or futile?
“Nothing like this will be built again”—inside a nuclear reactor complex.
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