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Previous: Dial-tone for Cyberspace
Many of us remember where we were when we saw some seminal event unfold on TV. We may have been doing different things, but we shared a common experience through the live broadcast. Parts of each person’s experience were not shared. The shared experience is the part that came off the screen and out the speakers. Read More
This is the sixth and second to last installment of my new serial, The Seventh Rule…
Previous: Weapons of Math Destruction
Imagine we are at the Nasa Operations center, and it is filled with people attending to different aspects of a space launch. The operations director checks in with the different domain specialists: “Communications?” “Go.” “Environment?” “Go.” “Transport?” “Negative! We have a problem.” Within that room, the specialists are focused on the complex applications and information in front of them. They all need to hear and speak to each other, and to see some common data on the big board at the front of the room. As the situation changes, some of the problematic applications are examined by related specialists who were not looking at it previously.
Now imagine a distributed virtual operations center.
In an homage to counting in order, I’d like to present the fifth installment of my freshest serial, The Seventh Rule…
Previous: Demoed
In 2003, two of the world’s top computer scientists introduced their latest project: Croquet. David Reed and Alan Kay proposed a radical model for making computers work together on the Internet. With co-authors David Smith and Andreas Raab (old profile!), they developed the ideas over the next three years in conjunction with teams at HP, Intel, the Japanese National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Viewpoints Research Institute, and the Universities of Wisconsin and Minnesota. Teleplace was formed in late 2005 (originally named Qwaq) to transform this research into a practical commercial system.
And the results are in.
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Previous: Done!
How can all this be possible? Magic. But learnable magic.
Next: What Have We Made?
ELEVEN ELECTRIC LIES, cover illustration by the author
Before we continue with the current serial, I’d like to mention that my latest round-up of stories is available in a new printed edition, available today via the presses of Lulu. If you still like books, or know somebody else who still likes books, or just like supporting independent publishing by putting money in the pockets of the artists you enjoy, please consider ordering a copy or two of Eleven Electric Lies: Collected Stories Volume III.
Meanwhile, here’s the third installment of The Seventh Rule…
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A thriller about nanomachines, neurobiology, Gulf War Syndrome, and a Silcon Valley messiah.
"...a book infused with a sensibility that you don't normally expect a 'hard science fiction' novel to have: real emotions, real heartbreak and a real sense of the craziness at the core of the human condition."
—Andrew Leonard, Salon.com
An anthology of the winners of the inaugural Hofstadter Prize for Machine-Written Narrative, with a preface by the editor and an introduction by the Hofstadter Prize Committee
"Cheap Complex Devices is astonishing, on just about every level a book can be astonishing."
—Rusty Foster, Kuro5hin.org
In Freemerica, where Orwell's 1984 is fused with Ronald Reagan's 1984, a young monk tries to save the world from disintegration.
"All three of Sundman's books are somewhere between excellent and brilliant. ... The Pains touches upon the key issues of our time: it is a book which is philosophical to the point of being mystical."
—Michael Allen, Grumpy Old Bookman
conspiracy, duplicity, double-crosses, dispensational Christian fascism, misunderstandings, confusions, car crashes, megalomaniacal villains (in and out of government), explosions, gunplay, Russian Mafias, neuroscience, coincidence, mysterious islands not far from Cape Cod, information theory, love, regret, remorse, nostalgia and sex.
Published by late spring 2010, if not sooner. Pre-orders much appreciated.
jsundmanus:
RT @zengo: Comment vendre son livre sans l'aide d'un éditeur? "Premièrement, tu dois avoir écrit un excellent livre", dixit John Sundman ...
CheeseburgerB:
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haroldfeld:
As usual, Markey knows how to turn a phrase. http://youtu.be/QHVrE1NTgxI #globalclimatechange
Wetmachine:
New post to Imagination Sinkhole: The Seventh Rule — Chapter 7 http://www.wetmachine.com/?p=2606
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Imagination Sinkhole
The Seventh Rule — Chapter 7
And now the concluding chapter of The Seventh Rule, another free science-fiction serial from the likes of me. The complete story is available in print in my latest anthology, Eleven Electric Lies, which you might buy a copy of and then bring along for signing at the Toronto Comic Con! I hope to see you (or a duly appointed representative) there, March 18-20, 2011.
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