When Blobjects Rule the Earth
Bruce Sterling,
BoingBoing,
Mar 02, 2005
Scott submits this nice link to my discussion area with reference to the 'Drugs that Speak to You' item from yesterday. Bruce Sterling, a noted science fiction and cyberpunk author discusses the concept of gizmos and spimes, objects of the sort described in the other story. Spimes, especially, are interesting; you buy then (where else?) at the drug store, and thereafter the spimes follow you. " The most important thing to know about Spimes is that they are precisely located in space and time. They have histories. They are recorded, tracked, inventoried, and always associated with a story. They are searchable, like Google. You can think of Spimes as being auto-Googling objects." I've mentioned Sterling before in this context: in his novel Distraction you can find the concept of a hotel that teaches you how to build itself.
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