Archive for August, 2006
Ideas from “Accelerando”
Sunday, August 20th, 2006Just finished reading the book Accelerando by Charles Stross. In a nutshell, it’s a sci-fi novel involving 3-generations of a family, and follows them from pre-singularity earth through a post-singularity universe. Why I don’t think it’s his best book (it’s actually a collection of previously-published short stories), I was particularly impressed with some of the […]
Wearable Displays in Popular Science Magazine
Sunday, August 20th, 2006The September issue of Popular Science has a “What’s New | Gadgets” one-page article (unfortunately no link) about the current, soon-to-be, and future tech of personal wearable displays. Unfortunately, the author focused on the use of these devices for playing movies and videos, rather than what I think will be the real use of these […]