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This, on Charles Stross’ blog is too funny not to be copied :
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Just finished reading Limit Of Vision, by Linda Nagata. Three sides. 1 : an artificial intelligence called Mother Tiger, getting to the point of singularity where it/she will jump one step in its/her evolution. 2 : artificial life, the LOVs, barely big enough to be seen (hence the title and their name) that can build complex structures among themselves or can become symbiotic LOVs, linking with the brains of humans. 3 : the human bodies, most of them children ready to embrace the changes. Networking between the three of them, leading to « cognitive circles » : a next step in intelligence fuelled by instinct and feelings, not only rationnal thinking. How the protagonists link to the rest of the world, through technology, how they link among themselves, through technology and their new transformed bodies, and how their identities fluctuate. Ultimately, the book is not enough, not really facing the implications of what it proposes despite some nice ideas along the way.

It didn’t last long : William Gibson should soon stop blogging. Too bad. I think it was sometimes far better than the books.

Several days ago we linked to some News of the private efforts to get into space. It now appears that Jeff Bezos is paying for this, and he’s taking Neal Stephenson with him!

Dark Water, by Hideo Nakata (director of the only version of Ring you should see), is out in Belgium (that’s where we are). It’s a great movie, completely frightening. I saw it one year ago (at the 2002 Bifff) and will go and see it again. Should write about it again as soon as it’s done. Go and see it!

On Clarissa Smith’s website, there is this nice webtoy, creating new titles for non-existing shojo mangas each time you reload. I just love that kind of stuff.

An interview with Martin Rees. We’ll have to try and get to the ships (see : space tourism, but they may not go far enough °_°’)

Just a word on ‘Intacto’ a Spanish movie, not much seen, a pity because it is an interesting movie about a world when men believe that they have luck or not, and they can loose it by being touched, but they can also acquire more luck if they buy other’s luck through their bodies, their images. A world where women believe than luck, meaning fate can be modified just by taking the word when it is necessary, just by saying at the right time: ‘I don’t love you anymore’. But because endlessly it is a man’s world, guess who survives?
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Is this a blog dedicated to science-fiction? Just to reveal the discussions behind the curtains…is this a blog dedicated to science-fiction, then I can talk or should talk about what I experienced last week as spectator seeing ‘The 25th hour’ by Spike Lee. Just to make a link to my previous post: now I have also in my icones’closet: Edward Norton as Montgomery Brogan (his mother loved Montgomery Clift). Concerned as we are by a feminist-gendered approach, how did this ‘transfert’ of identity happen?
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Today a friend of mine challenges me to react to a discussion lead on the mailing list nettime (check their April archives), a highly recommended and refined place for intellectuals from all over the world to discuss and publish on very important issues.
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