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@EdwinG
> Unfortuantely, for communications captured before the switch, when quantum computers will be able to break such large numbers
... if they ever get powerful enough to crunch numbers above 21. I suspect that like fusion energy, quantum computing will be 20 years away forever. A mirage on an ever-retreating horizon.
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But if you really want to freak yourself out with potential but inherently uncertain quantum computing futures, watch Alex Garland's 2020 mini-series Devs.
“In short, on the basis of horse sense and the best scientific information, there was nothing good to be said for the exploration of space. The time was long past when one nation could seem more glorious than another by hurling some heavy object into nothingness.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan
Agent Smith, a pseudo-sentient AI: "I say your civilization because as soon as we started thinking for you it really became our civilization ..."
Tech Billionaires: "Hey everyone, pay us to let our AI do your thinking for you."
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Almost Human s01e06 is a troubling demonstration of how the power to control tech that other people depend on, can be abused. Gangsters give people synthetic hearts, programmed to stop at the end of the month unless the transplant recipient pays the demanded subscription.
My first RISO experiment. Fluorescent Orange and Blue.
#RISO #risoprint#DIY #illustration #printing #art #artist #mastoart #DigitalArt #print #artwork #scifi
Well, having finished Andor season 2, I just finished rewatching Rogue One. I enjoyed it more in some ways for knowing some of Andor's backstory. But that just underscores how undeveloped the characters were. We were supposed to feel something when they all died at the end, in quick succession. But I didn't feel like I really got to know them, and it all happened too fast.
I thought it was average the first time, and my opinion hasn't really changed.
Don't be put off by the clumsy pilot episode, Almost Human s01e02 (2013) isn't bad.
One clever thing about Andor is that they've given themselves only 2 seasons to get from Cassian's initial contact with the rebels, to his death in Rogue One. As well as forcing the writers to give us a story with a definite end, that removes any temptation to pad it out with trivia to keep the cash train rolling.
Bonjour,
Good Morning! :0)
Art by Ron Cobb for Alien - 1977
#illustration #painting #acrylics #canvas #scifi #sciencefiction #drawing #draw #art#digitalart #graphicart #earth #space #exploration #retro #vintage#roncobb #alien
"Written shortly after Ronald Reagan won the US presidency in 1980, Atwood's novel imagined a future in which the extreme religious right established a totalitarian regime in the aftermath of a civil war in America, amid plummeting worldwide fertility rates."
#YasmineJeffery, 2025
In the classic H.G. Wells novel The Time Machine, the time-hopping protagonist meets the Eloi, who live in a state of childish innocence. Everything they need is provided by invisible machinery. Maintained by the subterranean Morlocks, who eat the Eloi like farmed animals.
This is a wonderful metaphor for what hyperscale datacentres turned much of the net into.
"Ilsa is an AI that replaces Boolean logic with quantum law on an algorithmic level."
Dr Ivon Teslia, Travelers, s03e01
Legendary technobabble! The writer of this dialogue could get a marketing job with a MOLE Training company : P
"Some of what you're thinking about Ghormans, at this very moment, exists because we put it there."
"Hasn't there always been something slightly arrogant about the Ghor? Oh, we all feel it, what is that?"
"Last year, when the shipping lanes had to be shut down, how hard would it have been to simply allow the Imperial inspections that most other planets welcome?"
Dee Shambo, Nisus Osar, Ministry of Enlightenment, Andor, s02e01
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"And don't you ever stand for that sort of thing. Someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill'em right back.
Look, wife or no, you are no one's property to be tossed aside. You got the right, same as anyone, to live and try to kill people. I mean ... you know ... people that are ...
... That's a ... that's a dumb planet."
Mal Reynolds, #Firefly, s01e06
"You guys had a riot? On account o'me? My very own riot?"
Jayne Cobb, #Firefly, s01e06
"And don't you ever stand for that sort of thing. Someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill'em right back.
Look, wife or no, you are no one's property to be tossed aside. You got the right, same as anyone, to live and try to kill people. I mean ... you know ... people that are ...
... That's a ... that's a dumb planet."
Mal Reynolds, #Firefly, s01e06
This is a bonfire demo instance for testing purposes
