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Halting State by Charles Stross:
Science Fiction Inventions, Technology and Ideas
Excellent book goes deep into near-future Scotland in layers; the city and its people, the augmented realities anchored thereon, and the virtual worlds hosted in its infrastructure. The story starts with a theft of virtual goods from a very secure virtual bank and proceeds from there.
This novel does the best job of combining virtual worlds and real life of any sf novel I've ever read; for those of you who got tired of this device in the 1980's, rejoice, because Stross got it totally right. Highly recommended book. Select
an invention:
Airboarding |
Blacknet - antisocial networking |
CopSpace - MySpace for police, and then some |
Driverless Drones - AIs assist |
Lifelog - life record |
Overlay Specs |
SPOOKS - go on a LARP for a lark |
Virtual World Theft - faux thievery |
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