Snow Crash
A badass, somehow very detailed, yet fast paced novel. I would just get sucked into the descriptions for things like a pizza delivery truck. Y.T. I think was one of my favorite characters, she was so well written, she had two sides to her, one being the teenie skater punk, the other seemed like a woman film noir detective. The way society was set up by franchising was pretty realistic too, since now water is becoming privatized in present day’s reality. There was also one of the best uses of literary devices I have seen in a novel; the electronic virtual library database complete with librarian. The passages of the novel where he is conversing back an forth with the database, unveiling ancient yet related history, I could read this for hours. For some reason if you hand me a text book on the history of certain cultures I have a lot more trouble with it where as if two people where conversing and giving commentary on the history of that culture, I find it way easier and enjoyable to digest. It was also amazing how they brought religion and myth and united it with binary and the metaverse. It was such a good coupling. The use of language and even computer language spreading like a disease, using it to fight for control of language and information, this book had it all. Hiro Protaganost, hacker, former pizza delivery guy, and ninja to save us all, a mad lib gone horribly right.
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
TIGER! tiger!
The stars, my destination Alfred Bester
This story was an amazing rags to, I don’t want to say riches but this character has started from being confined to a room in space to being in complete control, almost god like. It’s a familiar tail everyone likes to hear but put into the sci-fi context. The future world described here did not seem that complex or unrealistic either, a thing I dislike about a few science fiction novels but have been recently starting to enjoy. The only thing this book really asked you to believe in was jaunting, or moving from one place to another with only the use of your mind for teleportation. I have come to enjoy reading science fiction with unrealistic future depictions. Sometimes the purpose of the genre is not to show us what is going to happen, but instead the genre is given a separate reality in which to explore social criticisms without the confines of our present or our realistic future reality. This allows authors to make their criticisms in extreme manors. Like the part in this book where the main character hands PyrE over to crowds of people telling them that he is giving everyone the power of death… all it takes is one person to think about ruining existence on Earth, Its almost (forgive the crude example) Saw. The story has almost mirrored itself at this point, jaunting was discovered and at first could only be accomplished with the threat of death, now he learns he can jaunt through space using faith.
This story was an amazing rags to, I don’t want to say riches but this character has started from being confined to a room in space to being in complete control, almost god like. It’s a familiar tail everyone likes to hear but put into the sci-fi context. The future world described here did not seem that complex or unrealistic either, a thing I dislike about a few science fiction novels but have been recently starting to enjoy. The only thing this book really asked you to believe in was jaunting, or moving from one place to another with only the use of your mind for teleportation. I have come to enjoy reading science fiction with unrealistic future depictions. Sometimes the purpose of the genre is not to show us what is going to happen, but instead the genre is given a separate reality in which to explore social criticisms without the confines of our present or our realistic future reality. This allows authors to make their criticisms in extreme manors. Like the part in this book where the main character hands PyrE over to crowds of people telling them that he is giving everyone the power of death… all it takes is one person to think about ruining existence on Earth, Its almost (forgive the crude example) Saw. The story has almost mirrored itself at this point, jaunting was discovered and at first could only be accomplished with the threat of death, now he learns he can jaunt through space using faith.
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Mediascape 5 years out
In five years it will be only natural that technology will change. Technology has a history of changing very rapidly. Right now most homes own computers, something that was unheard of years before. I think tablets will become a standard issue. A child will be born and he will be given his tablet, to learn how to speak, to learn how to read. Then he will take that tablet to school. All the other students will have theirs too. there will be less and less communication from person to person, instead all communications will happen digitally. existence will become less personal.
15 years out
population will be a huge crisis and if people are living longer because of advances in technology there will have to be some form of population control or some sort of population crisis. since things have been becoming less personal and people have been becoming to involved in there technology it will be easier for peoples in power to stay in power and maybe they can be the cause of this population control.
50 years out
ruins... unstable, uninhabitable atmosphere , unless we can move out into space or into the water
15 years out
population will be a huge crisis and if people are living longer because of advances in technology there will have to be some form of population control or some sort of population crisis. since things have been becoming less personal and people have been becoming to involved in there technology it will be easier for peoples in power to stay in power and maybe they can be the cause of this population control.
50 years out
ruins... unstable, uninhabitable atmosphere , unless we can move out into space or into the water
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