tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post9076706771309128940..comments2024-03-26T23:41:10.319+00:00Comments on Authors Electric: Invisible Future by Susan PriceKatherine Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17196712319655603442noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-35194629158819850392014-06-29T03:11:09.644+01:002014-06-29T03:11:09.644+01:00Hello every one, I really want to share my testimo...Hello every one, I really want to share my testimony to the hearing of the general public on this site about how DR WASIU helped me, December 2013, I saw a post on a particular site shearing testimony on how the great spell caster brought back her ex who name is Jerry so I just see it common and i said let me see what will happen because my husband left me and my three kids for another woman just like that, i and my husband was married for six years living happily before i new what was going on, he left me and go for another woman so when i saw the post, i contacted the spell caster on his email and he told me i should not worry that my husband will come back to me in three days after once he finish casting the reunite spell and to my greatest surprise, i now have my husband back to me again and i want to use this medium to let every body know that this is real and if you are out there having this same problem please contact the great spell caster on his email now because he can do the unexpected. his email is traditionalblackspell@gmail.com or You can also email him directly Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17718428473859377978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-63625078568036674722014-06-26T10:09:15.576+01:002014-06-26T10:09:15.576+01:00Another excellent point, Nick!Another excellent point, Nick!Susan Pricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07738737493756183909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-663973479497623922014-06-26T09:36:07.974+01:002014-06-26T09:36:07.974+01:00The skin tight silver lame is another interesting ...The skin tight silver lame is another interesting one. I think this is an interesting case of the requirements of fiction muscling on the ideas.<br /><br />SF films would go for something like silver suits because they had to look instantly different - the audience had to know at a glance that this was the future. So it was a theatrical device, really (like kabuki theatre dressing ninjas all in black... real ninjas never really wore that stuff, it was just so ninja characters would be invisible on stage).<br /><br />So a theatrical device somehow ends up as a prediction of the future, with no rhyme or reason beyond the fact that it 'looked different'. Fiction is powerful stuff.Nick Greenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08191176209084540085noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-90493162466324743342014-06-25T21:57:18.307+01:002014-06-25T21:57:18.307+01:00Lee - no one around that pub table, least of all m...Lee - no one around that pub table, least of all me, intended any slight to SF writers. The bros and me all love SF - and agree that accurately predicting the future isn't really the point. Agree with you too, Bob - speculating endlessly on past and future, without any conclusion being possible - but lots of fierce arguments along the way - is one of my favouritest pastimes.<br /><br />My only real intention - and it seems I've done it - was to start people arguing. Or, failing that, discussing.<br /><br />Nick - some very interesting points - but Mari, I thank all the gods that uniform silver lame never came about. I would look beyond hideous in skin-tight silver lame. As would the greater part of the population. Just imagine the crowd you last passed on the high street, all in skin tight silver lame. The horror the horror.Susan Pricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07738737493756183909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-27863991127393237192014-06-25T18:57:56.432+01:002014-06-25T18:57:56.432+01:00I was brought up (having read "New Maps of He...I was brought up (having read "New Maps of Hell" etc) to think that SF stood for "speculative fiction" rather than "science fiction", and that predicting developments in technology wasn't really the point - thought it's a neat trick if you can bring it off. The point of Wells's "The Time Machine", for instance, wasn't that it was predicting that time travel could ever be possible; it was its warnings about the future. I've never liked the modern abbreviation "Sci-Fi" because to me it's an abbreviation of the wrong thing. Nevertheless, Sue and her brother make some interesting points... Bob Newmanhttp://www.volecentral.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-22337996669745033742014-06-25T17:37:12.682+01:002014-06-25T17:37:12.682+01:00My mobile trumps your mobile ... no apps, and not ...My mobile trumps your mobile ... no apps, and not even a camera function. Currently saving up for a nice old-fangled ear trumpet ... madwippitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02595748471651052552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-54405375311361028462014-06-25T14:24:00.946+01:002014-06-25T14:24:00.946+01:00I have selective attention when it comes to Keanu ...I have selective attention when it comes to Keanu Reeves. Like Homer Simpson with beer or donuts. Keanu. My one weakness. What was that you were saying?Catherine Czerkawskahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14554969254207924049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-73616801694626003392014-06-25T13:02:19.061+01:002014-06-25T13:02:19.061+01:00BTW, Susan, I don't find a lot of stuff invisi...BTW, Susan, I don't find a lot of stuff invisible - or at least inaudible. Just sit in a pub or train with all those people using their mobiles. Or the folks walking down the street and seemingly talking to themselves.Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13770069472552779217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-12036704769256874852014-06-25T12:43:43.921+01:002014-06-25T12:43:43.921+01:00great to see such a discussable post Susan, SF has...great to see such a discussable post Susan, SF has always had problems escaping from its own time and culture - I remember reading with irritation SF about the future (written in 50s and 60s) with all sorts of gadgets but women still housewives in the kitchen! History is a cycle more than a straight line so we are just as likely to return to an agricultural tribal existence as to head to mars in silver suits. All our technology depends on power and of course as Nick points out, money. Even in the 30s and 40s, for example, quite a lot of fairly affluent but not millionaire standard people (eg my ex ma in law's bro) owned planes, little 'flying fleas' made of wood and fabric which they parked randomly in fields, and it seemed everyone would have one eventually, yet that didn't happen. Lydia Bennethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09328239009863878547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-11333839064866145072014-06-25T12:33:47.272+01:002014-06-25T12:33:47.272+01:00That explains it, then, Nick - why I often feel li...That explains it, then, Nick - why I often feel like a machine, especially when I'm on to the third load of laundry in a morning.Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13770069472552779217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-5041206008184626982014-06-25T12:09:59.291+01:002014-06-25T12:09:59.291+01:00Here's what I think will happen: we migrate on...Here's what I think will happen: we migrate online into vast computers that can store our consciousness indefinitely. Then Keanu Reeves will... [SNIP] I mean, then these machines will themselves be able to venture out into space, now that they are more enduring than the organic squishy water-bags that we are.<br /><br />So humanity will eventually conquer the stars (we'll have to, as our sun will one day go kerblootz) but it won't be as people... we'll be giant gestalt entities, living spaceships. Until we've turned the whole universe into machines like ourselves.<br /><br />There is a theory that this has already happened, and that the whole cosmos is an artifact. <br /><br />Keanu: Woah!Nick Greenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08191176209084540085noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-70897896524930426482014-06-25T11:49:47.854+01:002014-06-25T11:49:47.854+01:00Nick, the story isn't over yet. What about spa...Nick, the story isn't over yet. What about space tourism? plans to colonise Mars? But you're undoubtedly right about the economic motivation. (Hasn't it always been so?) So think resources.Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13770069472552779217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-33372129818999252192014-06-25T09:23:05.480+01:002014-06-25T09:23:05.480+01:00Great post, Susan - a short story in its own right...Great post, Susan - a short story in its own right! I'm kind of disappointed that we're not all walking around in silver lamé jumpsuits and travelling in personal spaceships. But Nick has a point - we seem to have switched our attention from outer space to inner space.Mari Biellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14221256993468150226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-82439107362580513382014-06-25T08:56:25.245+01:002014-06-25T08:56:25.245+01:00Your brother certainly has a point... most of our ...Your brother certainly has a point... most of our migration has been into 'inner space', the cyber world, rather than outer space. In fact that would be my solution to the Fermi Paradox (where are all the ETs?). My answer is that civilisations don't migrate out to the stars, they migrate inwards into technology. In short, ET is too busy on Twitter to speak to us.<br /><br />However... it's not all been invisible. Massive passenger planes - those are pretty visible, and futuristic. And wars ARE fought by soldiers in techno-skeletons (witness the kit of the SWAT team in Zero Dark Thirty) and by giant robots (we call them drones and cruise missiles). <br /><br />What the SF writers didn't take into account was that the driving force of progress would be economical, not aspirational/idealistic. We could have jet packs, the tech is there... but economically it just wouldn't fly. (I thank you).Nick Greenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08191176209084540085noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-53512850412034737212014-06-25T07:21:40.360+01:002014-06-25T07:21:40.360+01:00I don't measure SF by its predictability, whic...I don't measure SF by its predictability, which is ify at the best of times. Getting it right means, aside from decent sentences, what we understand about people. And the truly alien is unimaginable anyway.<br /><br />There's a whole crop of wonderful SF writers out there now, and of course many writers who use traditionally SFonal elements in their fiction.<br /><br />Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13770069472552779217noreply@blogger.com