there actually have already been brain implants made for people who are paraplegic or quadriplegic to move artificial limbs or control cursors or computers with their thoughts. There have been brain implants to treat people with epilepsy, which actually turned out to be stimulating the hippocampus, which is really important in maintaining memories, so could end up being an implant to help people with dementia or Alzheimers in the near future.
if you like family sagas where the different generations face different issues, there's a 1999 Hungarian film by Istvan Szabo called "Sunshine" that is all spoken in English, where three generations of Hungarian Jews live through the "Austro-Hungarian Empire" the fascism of "The Kingdom of Hungary" and the socialism of "People's Democratic Republic of Hungary" over the course of a hundred years, with the same actor (Ralph Fiennes) playing grandfather, father and son. With the three types of government being to me a representation of "premodernity", "modernity" and "postmodernity", ending with the fall of the USSR and the creation of the current Nation of Hungary, which I guess could be the representative of "metamodernity". I think a free version is online or on UA-cam, but warning it is 3 hours, and contains violence, sex, nudity and course language.
The sequel is actually Glass House. It deals with the aftermath, hundreds of years later of established polities in space habitats connected by A-Gates and T-Gates, and what transhumanity is getting up to in the cold spaces between stars.
there actually have already been brain implants made for people who are paraplegic or quadriplegic to move artificial limbs or control cursors or computers with their thoughts. There have been brain implants to treat people with epilepsy, which actually turned out to be stimulating the hippocampus, which is really important in maintaining memories, so could end up being an implant to help people with dementia or Alzheimers in the near future.
if you like family sagas where the different generations face different issues, there's a 1999 Hungarian film by Istvan Szabo called "Sunshine" that is all spoken in English, where three generations of Hungarian Jews live through the "Austro-Hungarian Empire" the fascism of "The Kingdom of Hungary" and the socialism of "People's Democratic Republic of Hungary" over the course of a hundred years, with the same actor (Ralph Fiennes) playing grandfather, father and son. With the three types of government being to me a representation of "premodernity", "modernity" and "postmodernity", ending with the fall of the USSR and the creation of the current Nation of Hungary, which I guess could be the representative of "metamodernity". I think a free version is online or on UA-cam, but warning it is 3 hours, and contains violence, sex, nudity and course language.
Great video Jordan. Keep the reviews coming
If you enjoyed Accelerando, you’ll probably love the tabletop role playing game Eclipse Phase.
Thank you. I will read the book when I am insomniac. Keep updating us about more books to read. 😉
Thanks for the review.
If you like that you need to follow up with the sequal "The Rapture of the Nerds"
The sequel is actually Glass House. It deals with the aftermath, hundreds of years later of established polities in space habitats connected by A-Gates and T-Gates, and what transhumanity is getting up to in the cold spaces between stars.
Slowing down is of course deceleration, but I think you knew that :)