We are in the year 1992, in the North American Confederation. People travel to the Moon and to the other colonies with space ships. And yet, doors ask for coins to be opened, and fridges do the same, the homeostatic mechanical slaves are here to make a penny. Joe Chip works for Glen Runciter, of Runciter Associates. He tests persons with peculiar talents, inertials as they are called. They block the psychic power of telepaths, precogs and other psis, who mostly work for Hollis, an anti-talent for each talent. As this is how the universe works, maintaining its balance in everything.
Saturday, January 31, 2015
Ubik, Philip K. Dick
We are in the year 1992, in the North American Confederation. People travel to the Moon and to the other colonies with space ships. And yet, doors ask for coins to be opened, and fridges do the same, the homeostatic mechanical slaves are here to make a penny. Joe Chip works for Glen Runciter, of Runciter Associates. He tests persons with peculiar talents, inertials as they are called. They block the psychic power of telepaths, precogs and other psis, who mostly work for Hollis, an anti-talent for each talent. As this is how the universe works, maintaining its balance in everything.
Saturday, January 17, 2015
Code source, William Gibson
Hollis Henry, ex-chanteuse du groupe Curfew, est maintenant journaliste freelance. Elle écrit pour Node, un magazine techno-culturel façon Wired pour lequel elle fait un reportage sur le locative art, une forme d’art qui consiste à installer des sculptures en image de synthèse en des lieux déterminés par leurs coordonnées GPS. Et sans casque de réalité virtuelle sur les yeux avec le bon code WiFi et la bonne URL, impossible de voir la crise cardiaque de Scott Fitzgerald dans un Virgin de Los Angeles ou la torche de la Statue de la Liberté sur la plage.
Saturday, January 10, 2015
Aventures au cœur de la mémoire, Joshua Foer
Quel est le point commun entre un chauffeur de taxi londonien, un grand maître d'échecs, un sexeur de poussins et un champion de mémorisation ? Chacun d'eux a appris des techniques de mémorisation, des principes mnémotechniques comme la représentation spatiale ou la synesthésie, pour augmenter sa mémoire.
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