This Week In Miscellanea: “Lobsters”

1. Lobsters. Specifically, Charles Stross’ “Lobsters,” an excellent piece of short fiction epitomizing a few interesting trends in modern cyberpunk. A lot of traditional CP focuses on renegade heroes with little in the way of family; in their post-post-industrial world connections are typically forged rather than inherited, and no one talks about having kids. Stross’ story, [...]

Details On Your OpSat

quote: “Drivers or pilots could see a vehicle’s speed
projected onto the windshield. Video-game companies
could use the contact lenses to completely immerse
players in a virtual world without restricting their
range of motion. And for communications, people on the
go could surf the Internet on a midair virtual display
screen that only they would be able to see.”

For those of [...]