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A library of speculative fiction you can think with.
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All dispatches →Every novel set in 2025-2050 predicts a different technology but the same mood: the psychological texture of knowing your tools are smarter than your institutions. The near future isn't a place — it's the feeling of competence without control.
[Vernor Vinge, Rainbows End][William Gibson, Neuromancer][Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars][Kate Wilhelm, Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang][James P. Hogan, The Two Faces of Tomorrow][Alvin Toffler, Future Shock]
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Item 341 sits two pages after Jennings's own aside on item 339 — the Priestley-and-Watt letter on the composition of water, with its unusual editorial intrusion: "The shape of this image is like a prelude and fugue — the prelude by Priestley, the fugue by Watt." He goes further than he usually allow…
Read more →The internet didn't kill writing. It killed the *scarcity* of writing. And scarcity was the only thing that made writing and authority look like the same thing.
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