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Bezig met laden... Live Without a Net (2003)door Lou Anders (Redacteur)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Read years ago, lost, found, re-read. The Paul Di Filippo story stuck with me, and there's a good introduction to the Darger and Surplus setting. ( ) If the internet had never been invented, what might have taken its place? A 2003 collection of SF what-if stories attempts to answer that question. If the world was run by Imperial China, the abacus might still be the primary means of calculation. Chemistry or biology, instead of electronics, might create new data storage. "Cloud storage" might be accomplished literally, with programmable weather! Some of these worlds had a Net, but have been pushed on to a post-apocalyptic scenario. Few of the stories predicted analogs for the morass of trolls and malware that the net actually became or the ubiquity of the Internet of Things in quite the way it's actually worked out. More jacked-in bio connections, fewer apps and selfies. One story does at least recognize that the main content sent over the Net is porn and makes it the primary use of virtual reality, even before gaming. Other stories focused more on replacement computation methods than on a different kind of WWW, like the Fleming/Bond WWII pastiche where Einstein had been a geneticist instead of a physicist and all our mechanical infrastructure (transport, communication, calculation, armament) was bio-engineered. I liked a few of the stories, but most were just OK and didn't really meet what I was expecting the theme of the book to be. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
BevatO One door Chris Roberson
Imagine a future without cyberspace or without the Web or virtual reality. What would happen in an alternate Information Age? What would you do? What would you fear? What wouldn't you know? Today's top masters of speculative fiction offer visions of futures near and far, of alternative histories, and journeys down roads not taken. What does await us at the end of a different tunnel? What would we find in dimensions where the inevitable vastness of cyberspace has been replaced by things surprising and strange? Welcome to science fiction unplugged, and set free to be. Live Without a Net contains works by such standout science fiction authors as Lou Anders, John Grant, Matthew Sturges, and many more! Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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