Of course this is an ultimate future (relatively speaking), the interesting things between here and there and the turns we'll take as a species along the way should prove incredibly entertaining. So all you word smiths have plenty of grist yet to mill.
About Iain, dear sir, thank you for you art, your intelligence and your vision. I hope with all my heart that the time remaining you is full to bursting with love, joy and beautiful memories for you and those you love to last a lifetime. You deserve nothing less than high praise and the deepest of admiration. I can imagine doing all kinds of things on a short clock (having just lost my partner of 35 years last September.) In the end we can only deal with life (that is all there is to deal with because the rest deals all by itself) and yours is already very well spent.
All of these are extrapolations of our current culture and therefore unlikely (modern versions of steam punk). Sufficiently advanced technology would shatter our current culture and render huge swaths of it pointless and without valid meaning (nobody today is much concerned about the finer points of hunting and cooking mammoth... though it might make a particularly pithy episode of "Man vs Food".) Material goods that come into and go out of existence as needed preclude any need for a consumption based economy. Ideas and thought forms are the only commodity, information the substance of existence. In fact in such a world even our bodies are just one more construct and can be altered or replaced by whatever our desire or need dictate. Everything boils down to energy consumption, thermodynamics and computational density. Ultimately we become beings composed of information, energy giving form.
It only makes sense that we will reinvent ourselves. The endless assumptions and cultural baggage that supplants logical existence and purpose driven self expression have made human culture a painful, slog through ignorance, fear violence and class war. None of these thing have any inherent value and inside a society with godlike powers to create and imagine, the rational behind such small minded endeavors would evaporate like dew on a warm summer morning.
As nanotech gives way to femtotech, we find out if space and time are indeed pliable or if in fact the vast majority of our consciousness remains wrapped around our star, limited by the countless picoseconds it takes for those closest to the sun to communicate with those further away. Our posterity relegated to spores of consciousness dancing on the interstellar winds searching for other intelligence (and all the further questions raised by the possibility of finding it.)
I don't imagine interstellar corporations. They are already self destructing and we aren't even close to an unbridaled future. The profit motive is inherently suicidal. Our culture hasn't even determined a sustainable cause worth living for. We have a long way yet to evolve, thank Jebus the rate of evolution is exponential.
Right, the devastation of chemo is that you give people metabolic poison in the hopes of killing cancer before you kill the patient. In practice its grisly business. These new immunotherapies promise great advancements in using our own bodies to defend themselves against cancer (the way they're supposed to.) The real problem with cancer is that it's a moving target. It evolves, changes, adapts. Kill of 99.999% of a cancer and what's left are the cancer cells that don't respond to that particular treatment. If you're very lucky, your immune system finishes off the stragglers. If not in a year or two it's back with a vengeance, and the last treatment won't work this time. Passive nanotech is amazing and very promising in the short term, but we need to pursue active nanotech full on. That's the future that ends human disease as we know it, and extends the human lifespan into completely unknown territory.
Follow the links in the article to his personal site. He will now be making his long term companion his widow (besides the expression of love therein, I'm guessing there'll be the expedience of making certain that his estate passes to her and knowing someone he loves will manage his posthumous wishes almost certain provides some degree of solace.) He mentions sharing time with friends and loved ones and traveling to places that hold personal importance one more time. I dunno, sounds like a great use of limited time.
Oh Yeah, because a book written by a crowd of past Comicon attendees should be every bit as fine as a tome created in the distinctive style and manner of a bright and visionary Scottish author. You may want to take note of the recent lack of Asimov or Heinlein fan fic. Enjoy this amazing human being's contribution to literary culture and tickling the human imagination, and mourn that his work is now complete. This is the current sad state of being human.
Let us use this limited time to acknowledge this fine person's gifts to us, aid him in any way that we can to use this time to his utmost joy and happiness and leave him well thanked and appreciated. Would that we all leave this mortal coil, loved, celebrated and honored.
To heck with a jammer, the first person to come up with a Scramble Suit (a la A Scanner Darkly), is gonna make a mint, up until the suits are outlawed for anyone not in law enforcement or administrative government.
In the many worlds paradigm, all the outcomes that can happen do and become branching points for new possible universes that coexist in parallel in the light cone. So the path you walk may be deterministic inside an infinite number of parallel outcomes and in that context free will is alive and well.
ever thought about wrapping a trunk around your pee pee and.>.(*$@*( #&$
@#$
$
#
And if the elephant sneezes the international space station will be able to see your testicles heading into deep space by way of your rectum! That my friend is Gawd's very own blow job.
In a word... Tachyons! We will learn to communicate through tachyons and will know about the end of the world just in time to kiss our collective asses goodbye! And a tip of the hat to you Dr. Manhattan!
Its not the getting paid. Its the creating ways of getting paid by raping and pillaging society. Patent Trolls, Divorce Ninjas, Ambulance Chasers, Corporate Mercenaries, Political Lobbyists, and a whole zoo of lower life form crawling a full kilometer below the most disgusting social muck, all in the name of wealth and power. I'd take the dignity and straight up honesty of a hard working whore over such human toxic waste any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
I don't have a problem with the majority of lawyers who are honest, hard working people many who believe in what they do. I have a problem with people whose morality is tied to personal expedience, and whose personal interests transcend any and all moral value. We hung people at Nuremberg, for committing atrocities, but at least they were in fact following orders or following some ideology albeit abhorrent. These people commit atrocities, sell future generations down the stream, gut civil rights, sell their soul and intellect to the highest bidder and remake our system of jurisprudence into a perpetual fart joke (an endless stinking noise we can all share in.)
I would gladly double all their wages if they would just grow a soul.
I don't recall any single protest that clocked in at over 5,000,000 people during the 60s. Mostly because back then, there would have been no sane way to organize such a protest. That and a huge number of folks who protested in the 60s were there for this protest, and their kids, and their grandkids, and all the other folks from every age group who were just plain pissed off.
I was at a 70s protest (just a kid, but I was there), and I was at the one in S.F. The later was much bigger.
You have to be kidding me! I have friend from all walks of life who protested the war and now they're screaming Impeach Obama for using the Constitution like a roll of Charmin. We're getting back to the which news do you listen to issue, aren't we?
Right... the mouth breathing American Public who get's it morning dose of thoughts from the wholly owed and operated media. I wonder if there's any correlation to the number of folks who watch the BBC and PBS News and the number of people who attended protests?
It was a planned event, there were protests going on all over the country, I was closest to the big one in S.F. and what was surprising was the diversity of folks yelling. I mean there were guys in business suits, third generation hippies, whole families pushing strollers, it was a huge crowd from all over the adjoining country side (and some of the small towns north of S.F. are nowhere near so left leaning as our lady of the flaming gay.)
It was a surprisingly mixed crowd and what was present to a person was the feeling that this had nothing to do with addressing 9/11. It had everything to do with feeding Halliburton, taking oil, empire building in the middle east, and Dubyah trumping his Dad in Iraq. None of which were good reasons for going to war (as if there were good reasons), and they were letting Osama slip right through their fingers.
For the love-o-jebus, The nations staged the largest protest in American History... Millions across the nation in every major city and many small towns publically assembled to scream and shout, "We see you, We know what you're doing, and this war is the thinnest of shams." I was in San Francisco, there was a veritable sea of pissed off humanity as far as the eye could see. The life support systems for rectums in D.C. weren't interested, and the wholly owed and operate media was too busy fellating Dick (how appropriate) Cheney and Rummy.
Twitter could have tweeted its brains out, I can't imagine it would have made a popcorn fart in a hurricane of difference.
1. A guy who's pulled an all night bender watching truly vile fetish porn... it's 10AM, he's sporting wild hair, bloodshot eyes, morning breath and crusty T-Shirt. Example of use: "Yeah, swung by John's house this morning to invite him to breakfast with the clan, but he'd been "Porn Trolling" and wasn't fit for human consumption."
2. A porn actor past their expiration date. Example of use: "I was watching ET last night and they caught a glimpse of Ron Jeremy... you seen that guy lately... OMG, what a Porn Troll."
Here you go, new entries for your Slang dictionary... you're welcome!
Currently we a imaged by hundreds of low resolution cameras at distance, for non-networkd security equipment that is only going to be scrutinized by the authorities in the case of the perpetration of a crime and through great labor (not to mention that video has a shocking short lifespan before the images are erased for the stream off new incoming images for security.)
Google is offering a centralized repository of millions peoples' ongoing imaging of you up close and personal in every walk of your life including visits to the restroom. They will be able to piece together you entire life in exquisite detail and keep it forever. Nah, I can't imagine this going terribly wrong. Duh!
Oh yeah, that's a plan... with super-sized Americans trying to squeeze a 50 inch ass through 25 inch window. Should immediately increase the amount of walking.
Slashdot Mirror
Isn't that an REM song???
Of course this is an ultimate future (relatively speaking), the interesting things between here and there and the turns we'll take as a species along the way should prove incredibly entertaining. So all you word smiths have plenty of grist yet to mill.
About Iain, dear sir, thank you for you art, your intelligence and your vision. I hope with all my heart that the time remaining you is full to bursting with love, joy and beautiful memories for you and those you love to last a lifetime. You deserve nothing less than high praise and the deepest of admiration. I can imagine doing all kinds of things on a short clock (having just lost my partner of 35 years last September.) In the end we can only deal with life (that is all there is to deal with because the rest deals all by itself) and yours is already very well spent.
All of these are extrapolations of our current culture and therefore unlikely (modern versions of steam punk). Sufficiently advanced technology would shatter our current culture and render huge swaths of it pointless and without valid meaning (nobody today is much concerned about the finer points of hunting and cooking mammoth... though it might make a particularly pithy episode of "Man vs Food".) Material goods that come into and go out of existence as needed preclude any need for a consumption based economy. Ideas and thought forms are the only commodity, information the substance of existence. In fact in such a world even our bodies are just one more construct and can be altered or replaced by whatever our desire or need dictate. Everything boils down to energy consumption, thermodynamics and computational density. Ultimately we become beings composed of information, energy giving form.
It only makes sense that we will reinvent ourselves. The endless assumptions and cultural baggage that supplants logical existence and purpose driven self expression have made human culture a painful, slog through ignorance, fear violence and class war. None of these thing have any inherent value and inside a society with godlike powers to create and imagine, the rational behind such small minded endeavors would evaporate like dew on a warm summer morning.
As nanotech gives way to femtotech, we find out if space and time are indeed pliable or if in fact the vast majority of our consciousness remains wrapped around our star, limited by the countless picoseconds it takes for those closest to the sun to communicate with those further away. Our posterity relegated to spores of consciousness dancing on the interstellar winds searching for other intelligence (and all the further questions raised by the possibility of finding it.)
I don't imagine interstellar corporations. They are already self destructing and we aren't even close to an unbridaled future. The profit motive is inherently suicidal. Our culture hasn't even determined a sustainable cause worth living for. We have a long way yet to evolve, thank Jebus the rate of evolution is exponential.
Right, the devastation of chemo is that you give people metabolic poison in the hopes of killing cancer before you kill the patient. In practice its grisly business. These new immunotherapies promise great advancements in using our own bodies to defend themselves against cancer (the way they're supposed to.) The real problem with cancer is that it's a moving target. It evolves, changes, adapts. Kill of 99.999% of a cancer and what's left are the cancer cells that don't respond to that particular treatment. If you're very lucky, your immune system finishes off the stragglers. If not in a year or two it's back with a vengeance, and the last treatment won't work this time. Passive nanotech is amazing and very promising in the short term, but we need to pursue active nanotech full on. That's the future that ends human disease as we know it, and extends the human lifespan into completely unknown territory.
Follow the links in the article to his personal site. He will now be making his long term companion his widow (besides the expression of love therein, I'm guessing there'll be the expedience of making certain that his estate passes to her and knowing someone he loves will manage his posthumous wishes almost certain provides some degree of solace.) He mentions sharing time with friends and loved ones and traveling to places that hold personal importance one more time. I dunno, sounds like a great use of limited time.
Oh Yeah, because a book written by a crowd of past Comicon attendees should be every bit as fine as a tome created in the distinctive style and manner of a bright and visionary Scottish author. You may want to take note of the recent lack of Asimov or Heinlein fan fic. Enjoy this amazing human being's contribution to literary culture and tickling the human imagination, and mourn that his work is now complete. This is the current sad state of being human.
Let us use this limited time to acknowledge this fine person's gifts to us, aid him in any way that we can to use this time to his utmost joy and happiness and leave him well thanked and appreciated. Would that we all leave this mortal coil, loved, celebrated and honored.
To heck with a jammer, the first person to come up with a Scramble Suit (a la A Scanner Darkly), is gonna make a mint, up until the suits are outlawed for anyone not in law enforcement or administrative government.
In the many worlds paradigm, all the outcomes that can happen do and become branching points for new possible universes that coexist in parallel in the light cone. So the path you walk may be deterministic inside an infinite number of parallel outcomes and in that context free will is alive and well.
ever thought about wrapping a trunk around your pee pee and .>.(*$@*( #&$
@#$
$ #
And if the elephant sneezes the international space station will be able to see your testicles heading into deep space by way of your rectum! That my friend is Gawd's very own blow job.
But to each their own...
Hmmm, mayhaps we should avoid the punch. Not my idea of a party thanks.
God would never let this happen
He let George Bush Jr. happen. He let Carrot Top Happen. He let Paris Hilton happen... you my friend are buggered!
In a word... Tachyons! We will learn to communicate through tachyons and will know about the end of the world just in time to kiss our collective asses goodbye! And a tip of the hat to you Dr. Manhattan!
Its not the getting paid. Its the creating ways of getting paid by raping and pillaging society. Patent Trolls, Divorce Ninjas, Ambulance Chasers, Corporate Mercenaries, Political Lobbyists, and a whole zoo of lower life form crawling a full kilometer below the most disgusting social muck, all in the name of wealth and power. I'd take the dignity and straight up honesty of a hard working whore over such human toxic waste any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
I don't have a problem with the majority of lawyers who are honest, hard working people many who believe in what they do. I have a problem with people whose morality is tied to personal expedience, and whose personal interests transcend any and all moral value. We hung people at Nuremberg, for committing atrocities, but at least they were in fact following orders or following some ideology albeit abhorrent. These people commit atrocities, sell future generations down the stream, gut civil rights, sell their soul and intellect to the highest bidder and remake our system of jurisprudence into a perpetual fart joke (an endless stinking noise we can all share in.)
I would gladly double all their wages if they would just grow a soul.
I don't recall any single protest that clocked in at over 5,000,000 people during the 60s. Mostly because back then, there would have been no sane way to organize such a protest. That and a huge number of folks who protested in the 60s were there for this protest, and their kids, and their grandkids, and all the other folks from every age group who were just plain pissed off.
I was at a 70s protest (just a kid, but I was there), and I was at the one in S.F. The later was much bigger.
You have to be kidding me! I have friend from all walks of life who protested the war and now they're screaming Impeach Obama for using the Constitution like a roll of Charmin. We're getting back to the which news do you listen to issue, aren't we?
Right... the mouth breathing American Public who get's it morning dose of thoughts from the wholly owed and operated media. I wonder if there's any correlation to the number of folks who watch the BBC and PBS News and the number of people who attended protests?
It was a planned event, there were protests going on all over the country, I was closest to the big one in S.F. and what was surprising was the diversity of folks yelling. I mean there were guys in business suits, third generation hippies, whole families pushing strollers, it was a huge crowd from all over the adjoining country side (and some of the small towns north of S.F. are nowhere near so left leaning as our lady of the flaming gay.)
It was a surprisingly mixed crowd and what was present to a person was the feeling that this had nothing to do with addressing 9/11. It had everything to do with feeding Halliburton, taking oil, empire building in the middle east, and Dubyah trumping his Dad in Iraq. None of which were good reasons for going to war (as if there were good reasons), and they were letting Osama slip right through their fingers.
For the love-o-jebus, The nations staged the largest protest in American History... Millions across the nation in every major city and many small towns publically assembled to scream and shout, "We see you, We know what you're doing, and this war is the thinnest of shams." I was in San Francisco, there was a veritable sea of pissed off humanity as far as the eye could see. The life support systems for rectums in D.C. weren't interested, and the wholly owed and operate media was too busy fellating Dick (how appropriate) Cheney and Rummy.
Twitter could have tweeted its brains out, I can't imagine it would have made a popcorn fart in a hurricane of difference.
And now for something completely different... The Larch!
Until you realize the only reason you need a lawyer, is because of other lawyers...
Well, kinda. They're not practicing lawyers. They've evolved into LAWYER's next form, POLITICIAN...
You describe them as though they're some kind of horrible parasite... good job!
"Porn Troll"
1. A guy who's pulled an all night bender watching truly vile fetish porn... it's 10AM, he's sporting wild hair, bloodshot eyes, morning breath and crusty T-Shirt. Example of use: "Yeah, swung by John's house this morning to invite him to breakfast with the clan, but he'd been "Porn Trolling" and wasn't fit for human consumption."
2. A porn actor past their expiration date. Example of use: "I was watching ET last night and they caught a glimpse of Ron Jeremy... you seen that guy lately... OMG, what a Porn Troll."
Here you go, new entries for your Slang dictionary... you're welcome!
Currently we a imaged by hundreds of low resolution cameras at distance, for non-networkd security equipment that is only going to be scrutinized by the authorities in the case of the perpetration of a crime and through great labor (not to mention that video has a shocking short lifespan before the images are erased for the stream off new incoming images for security.)
Google is offering a centralized repository of millions peoples' ongoing imaging of you up close and personal in every walk of your life including visits to the restroom. They will be able to piece together you entire life in exquisite detail and keep it forever. Nah, I can't imagine this going terribly wrong. Duh!
Oh yeah, that's a plan... with super-sized Americans trying to squeeze a 50 inch ass through 25 inch window. Should immediately increase the amount of walking.
Alex, I'll take Bluebook for 500...