We get the keys for our new digs tomorrow, meaning the next week will be a flurry of packing, movement, cleaning, organizizing, unpacking, arranging, and shining; give or take a few steps.
What it also means is that I’ll be without DSL for a few days while the phone company and iiNet sort things out amongst themselves. I’ll have dialup to tide me over, but given the amount of work to be done in the next seven days, I’m not sure I’ll have a lot of time for it. I guess that means I’ll have plenty of email and a few billion news items to catch up on when I return. See you all on the flip side.
Posted by Chris Clark on July 25, 2003 at 1:44 AM
Read Marshall Brain’s intriguing Robotic Nation article. Think about it; it’s not outside the realms of possibility.
Brain’s article isn’t all that original, mind you; robot–populated dystopic futures have been a part of Science Fiction for as long as there’s been a Science Fiction. The thing that does make his piece unique is the timeline: it’s our world, very, very soon. Most of us never consider how close we really are.
With that in mind, here’s a beauty from the archives. The Parking Lot is Full writer Pat Spacek used to pad their mailing list’s announcements with his own fiction; largely pornographic, ultraviolent, extremely funny tales from the depths of his twisted mind… great stuff. His last story before PLIF imploded was one of the aforementioned robot–future stories. Personally, I see myself as the guy bombing the school. Shit, aside from writing this very weblog, there’s nothing I do in my everyday life that couldn’t easily be overtaken by a robot… probably not even a very good robot.
If there’s anything that Terminator 3 and the Matrix have taught us, it’s stay the fuck away from artificial intelligence.
Posted by Chris Clark on July 25, 2003 at 2:55 AM