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2002 May 14 Voices From the Gaps: Octavia Butler
Supergenius literary sci-fi. Not to be missed; beats the pants off your average cyberpunk-type. The Parable of the Talents, in particular, is a harrowing book.»
Jun 28 New Rose Hotel (1998)
Somehow it happened that they made a movie of New Rose Hotel and I never, ever found out about it. Damn.»
The Village Voice: Film: Flop House by Amy Taubin
A review of New Rose Hotel, the Movie. “Instead, what's on the screen is so dreadful that it inspires the ontological question 'What are films and why is this not one of them?'”»
William Gibson. New Rose hotel
William Gibson's best short story, I think - transational tech, sex, and the redemptionless hollow ache of those who deserve no better.»
Jul 12 Mission Statement of BLTC Research
Self-conscious project to ensure happiness and well-being engineering for all creation.»
Modafinil ( Provigil )
Stay awake for 40 hours with no bad side-effects. Then sleep 8 hours and do it again.»
Aug 22 Singularity Watch
The singularity is a'comin'! And these people are a-waitin'. The singularity is, well, here's what they say: "some 20 to 140 years from now—depending on which evolutionary or systems theorist, computer scientist, technology studies scholar, or futurist you happen to agree with—the rate of self-catalyzing, self-organizing, ever more autonomous (human-independent) technological change in our local environment will undergo a 'singularity,' becoming effectively instantaneous from the perspective of current biological humanity."»


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