Hey guys, guess what? I’ve been pondering for some time now about putting together a small collection of writing; nothing fancy, just a small collection of short stories which I myself would write. Given the nature of my job and how it seems to allow my imagination to wander and come up with things, I […]
Under Cover
It was just after six o’clock when Allison stepped off the bus. The sun was beginning to set and the air was very quickly turning cold. She cast an eye up at the sky, saw the moon that she had spotted earlier becoming increasingly bright. She let out a hot breath and watched the vapor […]
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New Drones Art Campaign
Over at deviantART, a constant source of inspired art for me, there’s an interest new campaign designed to raise awareness and stimulate debate on a rather controversial issue. I am referring, as the topic line would suggest, to the use of drones and UAV’s and all that it entails. As one of the greatest concerns […]
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Movie Trailer Monday: Elysium
Hello people and welcome back to another installment of MTM! Today, its a full-length trailer for the upcoming movie Elysium, a dystopian tale that takes place in the year 2159, where the class divide between rich and poor extends into orbit. The very wealthy live on a man-made space station (named Elysium) while the rest […]
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Relaunching an Idea: Genome!
In recent months, I did what I often do when I find myself in the midst of a few projects, where none of them are occupying my attenti0n completely. I went back to an old idea that never got finished, but which I felt pretty passionate about at the time. This idea was one a […]
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The Future is Here: Brain to Brain Interfaces!
And I thought the month of February was an already exciting time for technological breakthroughs! But if a recent report from Nature.com is any indication, February will go down in history as the biggest month for breakthroughs ever! Why just last week, researchers in Natal, Brazil created the first ever electronic link between the brains […]
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New Anthology Sample!
Hey folks! In the past few weeks, I’ve been working diligently to get my “works in progress” pile under control. This included getting Data Miners off my computer and onto the shelves, but also to get this anthology known as Yuva moving again. I’ve done my best to get more writings on the project, and […]
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Should I Be Afraid of the Future?
Not that long ago, I discovered a site dedicated to taking speculations about the future, crunching data and trends, and producing visualizations about them. Already, they had me with their graph that shows when future technologies will emerge, and how they will be interrelated. But then came their future of education and health technology, both […]
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Relaunching an Idea: Apocrypha!
by storiesbywilliams on January 5, 2013 in Future, Ideas, Novels, Science, Technology and tagged apocalypse, apocalyptic, apocalypticism, BosWash, cascadia, climate change, crashland, cyberpunk, dystopian, future, grim5next, hunluan, mega cities, Nanjing Peninsula, pappa zulu, post-apocalypse, science fiction, social commentary, speculative fiction, Taiheiyo Belt, technological singularity, technology, the blue banana, the Gangetic Plain, worlds undone, yuva
Recently, I began to seriously contemplate revisiting an old idea. Not just any old idea, mind you. This was an idea that went back to 2008, to the point where I first decided I wanted to move away from far-reaching, distant future speculative writing. It was also my first real stab at social commentary, predating […]
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