http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18276049

Cool.

Is that misquote intentional, btw?

I always liked the elements of that in this book;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excession

The Excession is what the Culture’s social scientists describe as an Outside Context Problem, one which a society cannot foresee and is often fatal. A metaphor to help explain this phrase is that of a successful aboriginal culture suddenly finding ocean-going vessels on its shores for the first time.

Well, that’s bloody nonsense. Anyone who has one would know he’d have to be the other end of the ward to use a Kinetic like that!

Is that misquote intentional, btw

Oops.

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”. 😳

Erm…

Eh??

Wow thats magic!

typical BBC techno correspondent, about 5 years late . Clicky for the terminally geeky

Clearly the next step is to reference yet more science fiction and have people playing operation ‘games’ when in actual fact they’re operating on real people via the internet.

they’re operating on real people via the internet.

?? there’s real people on the internet??

is to reference yet more science fiction and have people playing operation ‘games’ when in actual fact they’re operating on real people via the internet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ender%27s_Game

maybe all those xbox games are children really fighting wars in distant glaxies…

Talking of simple creatures I often wonder what our cat thinks about stuff we take for granted.

Her reaction to things with screens – tv, computer, iPad etc – is fascinating she seems to think it is a portal onto a real world and if there are any animals running across the screen she turns her head to follow them off to the side and looks round the back to see where they’ve gone.

Beyond magic it’s simply incomprehensible but she still finds it irresistible

maybe all those xbox games are children really fighting wars in distant glaxies..

I hope so. Then all those hours of shooting people that sound like 10 year old kids in the fact (in games for our monitoring overlords) won’t have been wasted.

maybe all those xbox games are children really fighting wars in distant glaxies.

Somewhere, in a city on a distant planet there is a robot gangster wandering around stealing cars and trying do perform extravagant stunts whilst listening to country and western music.