Brilliant! Through individualized teaching methods, and minor nanobiotechnical assistance, all children are able to read and learn with an ease previously known to few.
By empowering children, giving them the space and freedom to learn, they build, and pass on, a better world.
It reminded me of Vegan Stories. Children have good moral instincts about what’s wrong but we acculturate them to accept degrees of violence: adulteration.
The excellent notes section after the story pointed out that, “In 1963, Finland made a decision to make education its number one economic priority, and the highly effective educational system that emerged is the result.”
So now I have to read Finnish Lessons 2.0 and contemplate moving there.
“I realized that this is what a utopian, postscarcity world would be like. A place where there was no priority higher than pleasing the people around you and amusing yourself.”
Gorgeous. I did not know there had been a prequel to Walkaway! It may not be listed as such but it is.
With a 3D printer, open source programming, and a belief in the basic goodness of others, you can change the world!
“Soon every citizen on- and offline would have access to the kind of political second sight that previously, only rare people like Rob had possessed.”
I loved this optimistic story about data mining and open source programming. It pairs well with Designing Regenerative Cultures where there is an emphasis on formulating important questions before looking for answers.
The sort of programs described could make monumental differences in our daily choices.
“Where I die as a noun and only the verb survives.
I run. I am running.”
I run. I am running.”
Damn this was good. I’ve always meant to read Elizabeth Bear and now I she’s a must read!
I was not expecting a bit a of criminal psycho drama in this collection but I welcomed it.
Run girl, run!
“There was carping on the Internet but the journalists and businesspeople who rode the helirail up to the top and sat at the bar taking in the black sky and the curvature of the earth—well, none of them doubted.”
Strong start with beautiful imagery. A vertical city touching space and future gateway to the stars. A ground-level legacy of green fields, prairie dogs, and bison.
“A strange new world, he thought.”
I enjoyed this story of an industrialist who doggedly purses his childhood science fiction dream until he stands on the beach of a new world.
A future where an interconnected world comes together to protect elephants. I hope this happens before it’s not too late.
“There are people who don’t care about dead polar bears, or even dead children in trash heaps. They don’t see how our fates are linked. Everything is connected. To know that truth, however, is to suffer.”
A near-future grassroots collection of first-person stories about making positive changes. The fake icebergs were particularly interesting.
But it dragged. Especially the part in India.
It’s an interesting idea to promote border security by turning the desert into a solar farm - thus corporate security.
But this idea is highlighted in the notes section whereas the story is bogged down with abortion and a surveillance/points environment that’s ripped from an episode of Black Mirror.
“They were whole industries devoted to “pest control,” which actually meant destroying all the bugs and molds and animals and microbes that I just devoted my morning to keeping healthy.”
This was story was 1/3 a snapshot Solarpunk City story and 2/3 notes. It just didn’t give the effort of the previous stories.
Periapsis by James L. Cambias ★★★☆☆
Teen drama science fair competition for citizenship. Not particularly exciting but, yes, I would probably watch it.
Teen drama science fair competition for citizenship. Not particularly exciting but, yes, I would probably watch it.
“You might say that - telepathy is a sexually transmitted disease.”
It’s been a long time since I’ve read anything like Cronenberg’s eXistenZ. More than eco-positive this was bio-strange. But it could also be the first step to Nalini Singh’s psynet.
I appreciated this but didn’t enjoy it.
“...but if we claimed to be making overpriced, wasteful pieces of crap that destroy the environment? Then everybody would need to own two of them.”
Gasp! Are iPhones overpriced because they secretly contain Save the World Mode?
Doubt it.
I appreciated the animal-human bond central to the story. I wouldn’t leave without my horse(dog) either.
But this wasn’t a good story, especially compared the other tall tower story based strongly on science. This was aliens and religion and a strange suicidal ending. WTF?
Periapsis by James L. Cambias ★★★☆☆
Teen drama science fair competition for citizenship. Not particularly exciting but, yes, I would probably watch it.
Teen drama science fair competition for citizenship. Not particularly exciting but, yes, I would probably watch it.
This is the second time Alcubierre drives have been mentioned in my reading. The world of Dark Run used them.
While the imagery was lovely the story was the least based on science. Hell, if felt downright lazy in comparison.
This was a slice of a story with no meat. I would love to read about a hotel in Antarctica because of how much I enjoyed Antarctica: A Year on Ice. Pity that was not part of the story.
This one might have flown over me. I believe the big idea was to litter the sky with drones as micro-satellites to create a secondary, and more private, internet.
No.
Just use the darknet and leave the sky for the birds and the planes.
Average 3.47 which I feel confident rounding up to four because the premise of the anthology was revolutionary!
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