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From: Brett <ggtgp@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: OT: Any comments on my sci-fi writing?...
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2024 04:59:58 -0000 (UTC)
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BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is technically off-topic, but:
> Given a lot of the people in this group are technically minded, I am 
> left wondering if anyone can spot obvious technical or scientific flaws 
> in a sci-fi story I had gotten back around to working on some more?...
> 
> Despite being sci-fi, I was trying to keep most of the technology within 
> the limits of what seems plausible, but it is possible I may have messed 
> things up (or if the story just sucks, which is also possible).
> 
> 
> 
> https://github.com/cr88192/bgbtech_html/blob/master/stories/2021-09-09_Skimmer1B.pdf
> 
> I do have another (mostly newer) story that exists within the same 
> timeline, still textfile only for now, set roughly 20 years later:
> https://github.com/cr88192/bgbtech_html/blob/master/stories/2023-02-14_ShellbugHardMod.txt
> 
> 
> 
> Note that in these stories, there is actually a certain amount of 
> technological regression in some areas, as the idea was that the current 
> trajectory of technological development "peaked" somewhere around 2030 
> to 2035 and then largely stagnated and went into decline.
> 
> So, with a few exceptions technology portrayed for the 2070s is mostly 
> at "near future" levels, and by the 2090s had mostly backslid to roughly 
> early 2000s levels; mostly for legal/cultural reasons, primarily in the 
> areas of electronics and semiconductor manufacture (the demand for 
> "faster and better" had largely died off, in part because having more 
> than a certain prescribed amounts of computing power, RAM, and storage 
> capacity, in various predefined device categories, became illegal; in 
> part this made it no longer cost effective to build and maintain 
> "actually good" chip fabs, and things back slid towards "good enough", 
> say, 28nm to 90nm or so).
> 
> 
> Note that the underlying reason for cultural/legal limitations on 
> compute power are basically for the same types of reasons as in things 
> like Dune and Battlestar Galactica, just setting ~ early/mid 2000s 
> technology as the benchmark seemed to make more sense than limiting 
> things to 1970s technology (though, in a few places, the idea is that 
> some amount of roughly 1940s to 1970s level technology is being used as 
> well).
> 
> Some other parts were references to "stuff that already exists but isn't 
> in widespread use", like E-Ink, and nitinol wire, ... Though, there are 
> some more speculative technologies in the mix as well.
> 
> Though, in the stories, the general idea is that AI / AGI still 
> ultimately wins, despite the efforts to suppress it.


Safari on iPad says invalid PDF.