#technologies

[digitalismmm]

Catnap

[mylittleredgirl]

i feel like it says something about us as a species that somebody worked real hard to invent 3D printing when i think anyone who has ever used a printer would agree with me that we have not really gotten our arms around 2D printing yet. we’re getting ahead of ourselves.

[cat-eye-nebula]

Utopic SciFi Cities

[sayhoneysiren]

WHAT PLUTO ENTERING AQUARIUS MEANS FOR US

[crookednerdcreation]

[xponentialdesign]

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[impact-newswire]

Sensata Technologies Appoints New Chief Executive Officer

Stephan von Schuckmann Brings Extensive Experience in E-Mobility, Automotive, and Industrial Technology to Sensata Press Release – December 17, 2024 – SWINDON, United Kingdom – Sensata Technologies (NYSE: ST), a global industrial technology company and leading provider of sensors, sensor-rich solutions and electrical protection devices used in mission-critical systems to help its customers…

[elizabethiiregina]

All New Atlas | Boston Dynamics

[digitalismmm]

ENIAC

[mylittleredgirl]

@ zoom i just wanna talk

[technologiessheridanwyoming]

TECHNOLOGIES SHERIDAN WYOMING

[foxyou-too]

Nottingham Trent University

[libraryofbaxobab]

August 20, 2024:

This is so fucking funny.

I read this because of Dan Olson's description of it in his marvelous video "The Future Is A Dead Mall" and I was curious about how the original Metaverse was actually conceptualized.

This strikes me as a very intelligent author said "How can I write the dumbest book possible?" This should not imply that the book is bad! Just like, the Cool Guy mode was turned up to 11 and everything was so awful and gritty and dystopian that it became silly. I laughed out loud. I read introductory paragraphs to my friends. I live-reacted on Snapchat because this story is HILARIOUS and it is played one hundred percent straight. Every character takes themselves soooooo seriously riding around on their little high-tech skateboards through openly racist anarcho-capitalist neighborhoods, spouting barely-comprehensible yet extremely-plausible futuristic skater slang. Masterpiece of hilarity, no notes.

What I will offer a note on, is the weird second half gets wayyy into religious mysticism? Really took me out of it. I didn't care about whatever central mystery the characters were researching. I wanted more big dumb car chases, more "hacker" shit (in this world, "hacker" just refers to... anyone who can code), more pointless Mafia side-quests, more strikingly accurate depictions of today's technology dreamed up all the way back in 1992. In short, I wanted to see more of this world.

Weirdly enough, we didn't even spend a lot of time in The Metaverse™️ for this book being the thing that named the concept. It made it even funnier for me that this story's outside world more closely resembled our real life failed "Metaverses" in that everything was compartmentalized, financialized to the extreme, and governed only by corporations; meanwhile the Original Metaverse was a fantasy of a walkable city with public transportation and no cars. Incredibly insightful social commentary.

I had an absolute blast reading this, and even my friends howled when I read them selected passages in my best Cool Guy voice.

8.5/10 #WhatsKenyaReading

[awesomecooperlove]

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