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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 18:29:49 -0000 (UTC)
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BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/15/2024 11:59 PM, Brett wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> If I open it in FireFox on Windows, it shows a page view on GitHub 
> showing the PDF.
> 
> Here is a link to the raw PDF version:
> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cr88192/bgbtech_html/master/stories/2021-09-09_Skimmer1B.pdf

That link worked.

> If it still doesn't work in Safari, dunno, seems to open in Firefox and 
> Acrobat Reader on my end...
> 
> Here is the directory it is held in:
> https://github.com/cr88192/bgbtech_html/tree/master/stories
> 
> I just used PDF as it was more readable on here than either the RTF 
> (which the PDF was generated from) or the ".txt" file, which the RTF was 
> generated from, but the RTF has some differences from the TXT version, 
> and I had run spellcheck and similar for the RTF version (as I went from 
> Notepad2 to OpenOffice).
> 
> The PDF version was exported from OpenOffice.
> 
> Other options that OpenOffice can save as are "Open Office Text Document 
> (.odt)" and "Microsoft Office Word 97 (.doc)".
> 
> 
> Failing that, there is a raw ASCII text view (albeit now slightly out of 
> date):
> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cr88192/bgbtech_html/master/stories/2021-09-09_Skimmer1B.txt