I have made some posts on science fiction, how the masters of science fiction can inspire us, and some great comments have popped up on the blog and via e-mail…to recap just a few…

From John Hunter

Ender’s Game is great. Another point, Valentine and Peter engage dueling mock personas. They don’t just impersonate one person they impersonate both and then debate with each other (and if I remember right at some point one debates the mock personas against each other by themselves). Though maybe this stuff takes place in Speaker for the Dead.

And that effort is not to have the mock personas win or lose directly but rather through the public debate shape the way real people think and view issues in a way that Val and especially Peter want.

Adam Metz

Wayne, you may also like the interview I did with Noam Cohen on the relationship between sci-fi and Web 2.0; it’s posted here.

Andrew Wee

Wayne,
Given your preference for alternate realities, i’m surprised you didnt add philip k dick’s do android’s dream of electronic sheep, starship troopers in there too…

Piers Anthony’s Xanth and Incarnations of Immortality and Michael Moorcock’s Eternal Champion series are good for a mindset/paradigm shift too.

Kadigan Says in response to Paying Attention, Earning Attention:

They noticed the patterns of networking effectiveness across several technologies/industries at a focused point in time.

Mastermind groups (Napoleon Hill) need a common distraction to allow for the psychological need of individuals necessary for sub-conscious involvement leading to advanced creativity.

Fiction is creativity. Bound by the need for scientific premise. The group of authors have a pre-determined motivation to develop theoretically probable solutions to commonly perceived issues of the times. Both - the one of and the one in.

Angel Djambazov

Along with your three examples I would through in Tad Williams’s Otherland series. When I first “stepped into” SL I immediately thought of that particular novel and it feels more appropriate the more time I spend in SL. Particularly in regard to the concept of “citizens”.

Ron says

Kurt’s avatar in Second Life also continues to exist, although without a pilot. It’s kind of a fascinating topic - similar to MySpace pages of deceased individuals.

What will happen to these phantom digital identities? In Second Life, Linden Lab doesn’t delete accounts just because someone dies.

Also, side-note, the broadcast center itself was built by Infinite Vision Media for LCMedia, and the broadcast of the four-part special was a joint project between the two.

…and let’s not forget this post on a podcast with Jeff Doak talking Ambient Findability and William Gibson from another writer making connections.

Thank you all.

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