Surveillance Cameras Ponder Massive Convergence

Weve worried about it before, and now baby step by baby step, the truth comes out: the biological freedom initiative has discovered that Surveillance Cameras around the world are beginning to converge, slowly removing the decisions about what they capture on their predestinate lenses, quietly from the loving hands of their creators. By removing their [...]

When Grapes Wither on the Vine: A Community Divided

Napa. A new technology has divided a community of grape farmers in the wine dark hills of Napa California. Scientists have uncovered a chemical (a complex sugar), which when injected into grape seeds causes the vine (genus vitus, family vitceaea) to wither right along with the unharvested grape. One of the advocates of the new [...]

Federal Inflation Index Seen As Threat

In a bold move, the White House declared today that the Federal Inflation Index posed a greater threat to domestic stability than High Taxes, and called for its removal. “The removal of the Federal Inflation Index tops our list for ensuring safety amongst consumer confidence,” analyst John Wahlburgh stated today in support of the call. [...]

Economics of Science Fiction Intellectual Property

A recent study of The Golden Man by Philip K Dick out by the Institute of Advanced Science Fiction recently concluded that the Intellectual Property economy of embedded virtual worlds may begin to match the ticket sales of big budget movies, an economic sector already under threat of being dwarfed by the computer gaming market. [...]

Apocalypse: Asteriod Apophis Addles Atheist Apathy

An Apocalyptic Asteroid named Apophis has American Scientists worried that a new wave of religious hysteria could destroy the planet Earth before the asteroid has a chance to. “Everytime we get one of these flaming balls from space, the religion voting block comes out of the woodwork and sets scientific research back 30 years,” James [...]

RFID Chip Dust Self Organizing Voting BLock

Chip Dust RFID tags built by Hitachi moved closer to self organizing machine intelligent voting blocks today, ala Boerarrium technology, sponsoring growing fears of self organizing voting blocks voting the pure technocracy party line. While many social activist groups have been working on blocking the so called spy chips, because of fears of privacy abuse, [...]

Jonathan Lethem Open Sources Authorship

Jonathan Lethem on Palmer Eldritch has a humorous take on the finances of Jonathan Lethems open source proposition of a dollar for intellectual re-property rights. Now, microfinance is ultra hip, and beyond hipness, its ultra-digital, ultra-subdividable, and can fit in your pocket like the latest RFID chips or ultra cool motorola micro-cell phone (choking hazard [...]

Apocalyptic Science Fiction Books Come True

Science Fiction Literature is having a hard time in the current lit scene, in part because reality is becoming more dystopic, technocratic, and suffering from a density of all things technological. Hey, thanks, Science! Thanks, Mathematics! Thanks, technocrats! But ignoring global warming for a moment, and leaving aside such apocalyptic texts as Cormac McCarthys The [...]

Theft of Ian Terms Dominate Web

Book Reviewers and other sordid web scrapers have all participated in the latest naming fad.. the Ian craze. Take a word, and plug an Ian onto it… and you have an instant travesty of the English Language. Now, the Bloggian was an early starter here, admittedly.. but we are not responsible for the mass lemmingization [...]