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SF Author Robert J. Sawyer Looks at 2014
Alex writes "Canadian science fiction author Robert J Sawyer takes a positive look at a typical day in 2014 for Backbone Magazine, looking at where both scientific and sociological advances of the next decade will take us. Sawyer is a multi-Aurora, Hugo, and Nebula award winner, and was one of the first major authors to use a website to promote his work. Readers might associate some of these innovations and ideas from his fiction."
Why Microsoft? 100's of companies take out crap ass patents and you pick on Microsoft? Is your hatred that strong? Perhaps you need to lay off the jolt.
"...you cannot honestly expect him to try to extrapolate perfectly the world 10 years from now."
Him: "Here are some of my predictions for a typical day in late 2014...".
Umm, exactly why shouldn't I expect that from an article written by him expressly to give me his predictions.
What he predicts is a bit more like 2114.
this guy is a terrible writer. hominids was so stupid as to be unreadable after 10 pages or so.
vernor vinge on the other hand is an excellent writer.
some years are better than others.
sillydog