-grin- no really! I just read a New Atlas scientific article about :
“…biohybrid synapses that let living cells communicate with electronic systems, not with electrical signals but with neurotransmitters like dopamine.
New Atlas: https://newatlas.com/computers/artificial-synapses-living-cells-communicate-dopamine/?utm_source=New+Atlas+Subscribers&utm_campaign=ff0315b360-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_06_17_12_51&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_65b67362bd-ff0315b360-92416841
Remember when Miira was inducted into Innerscape and basically lost her whole skull so Kenneth Wu’s nano interface could connect the AI to her brain? Not quite there yet but…this article shows that it’s coming. And I actually forecast it…
Okay, okay, probably not that hard to do if you read sci-fi, but I’m still proud as punch.
Ahem, that’s all. As you were….
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June 19th, 2020 at 2:44 pm
Yes, you are a genius! The end!!! 😀
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June 19th, 2020 at 11:53 pm
-giggles- I’m never going to live this one down, am I?
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June 22nd, 2020 at 7:41 am
Nope. 🙂
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June 19th, 2020 at 10:35 am
It’s alright, though. People will never believe it until it’s been out and about for decades.
Sorry, that’s the cynic speaking. In three of my stories, I’ve put factual things in, even though these things are not common knowledge.
No one believes it, says it’s all far-fetched or unbelievable. And yet, these are facts, research undertaken and ongoing. Being a forward thinker needs to go into places where the disbelief can be easily waved away with the genre.
I’ll go back and cover my head now.
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June 19th, 2020 at 11:48 am
lmao – no! Stay and tell me which bits. Honestly? I thought it would take forever for 3D printing to become ‘mainstream’. It’s taken what? 10 years? Oddly enough the one that should be much further advanced is VR, and it’s…not quite there. I suspect the roadblock is the hardware. I just hope it becomes truly mainstream while I’m still young enough to enjoy it. 🙂
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June 19th, 2020 at 1:40 pm
Not on the Cards had three different types of ‘brain mapping’ studies, the binary icosahedron images, and a reference to an unknown mathematical structure of the that came from the island of a people related to the name Tlatzitzilitzinemi.
It all sounds far-fetched, but isn’t.
In The Old Woman … the concern was over the risk of space junk wrecking satellites. However, it’s a fact, and is still of concern. Another was the risk/concern about identifying a person through DNA and only enabling ‘valid’ personnel access to [stuff]. There’s a lot of research in the field. It also has a scarier issue: people being issued credits in exchange for labour – and the credits are only valid for subscription services. It’s a fact, under research, slowly being implemented. Globalisation of biometric markers, outer space treaty, changes to financial systems …
In Diaballein, the liquid metal. It’s a real thing. Dangerous. Exciting. But unbelievable. Metallic Hydrogen.
However, I may do more stories with as yet unknown concepts rather than use actual stuff. It’s easier to believe if they know it isn’t true.
Yep. I’m laughing. shocked, but still laughing.
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June 20th, 2020 at 12:01 am
That’s amazing. I knew about the space junk. Sickening that we’ve turned our own backyard into a dump. Didn’t know about the other stuff, especially the metallic hydrogen. That is Terminator II territory. 🙂
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June 20th, 2020 at 3:17 pm
self-annealing building structures that won’t collapse in an earthquake
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June 20th, 2020 at 3:30 pm
-grin- why the hell aren’t you writing scifi?????
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June 20th, 2020 at 3:41 pm
That’s the stuff I keep to myself these days. And it’s too much like one of my previous professions … No, I live in fantasy these days.
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June 20th, 2020 at 3:42 pm
As a lover of scifi, I believe that’s a waste. 😦
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June 20th, 2020 at 4:56 pm
I’m afraid the same passion isn’t there when it comes to stories with science. I tried, but it’s too hard. I like scaring people with my stories, but the truth can be much scarier than fiction. Maybe I’m a coward, cos it’s too scary for me.
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June 20th, 2020 at 10:37 pm
Yeah, you’re right about the truth. Can you imagine if we’d tried to write a story about a pandemic in 2020 that shut the world down? Yet here we are.
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June 18th, 2020 at 4:52 am
It’s your own fault for being such a brilliant visionary. Frankly speaking, I’ve no sympathy at all.
🙂 *massive hugs*
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June 18th, 2020 at 8:30 am
lmao & ROFL! Oh you cruel man. -massive hugs back-
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June 18th, 2020 at 2:12 am
Well done!
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June 18th, 2020 at 8:46 am
lol – thank you. That post was Baby Geek high fiving myself. Now I just feel a bit silly, but I am still proud of the concept. 😀
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June 18th, 2020 at 1:47 am
I always knew you were a farseer, Mistress, and I was there from the start.
Hugs xxx
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June 18th, 2020 at 8:47 am
Farseer…Lord Prosser, that’s the nicest thing you’ve ever said to me. Thank you. -massive hugs-
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June 18th, 2020 at 1:44 am
Good job!
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June 18th, 2020 at 8:47 am
lol – thank you. 🙂
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June 18th, 2020 at 1:33 am
More evidence that you are an excellent science fiction storyteller! The good ones extrapolate the future from threads in the present and then… it happens!
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June 18th, 2020 at 8:49 am
-hugs- thank you. As usual my timing is about 80 years off but it’s moments like these that validate everything I do. You know, that awful bugbear self doubt?
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