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Short story in which aliens restrict humans to earth for the usual reasons In the form, mostly, of alien memoranda and reports, which end with ( SPOILER )
Short story in which aliens restrict humans to earth for the usual reasons In the form, mostly, of alien memoranda and reports, which end with ( SPOILER )
And sometimes I'm perfectly wrong
Aug. 10th, 2009 12:16 amapparently a sequel to Halting State involving 3D printers. What are the criminal applications? Comments that it's well known that one of the first applications of any new technology is pornography....
So arbitrary realdolls, I guess.
via, ultimately, ML.
So arbitrary realdolls, I guess.
via, ultimately, ML.
Prediction
Jul. 15th, 2009 09:31 amCharles Stross's next book (described only by title and what it's not here) will concern a system (probably highly-automated with distributed human components (possibly a hijacked altruistic distributed-computing platform) for generating arbitrary, high-quality, realistic pornography featuring arbitrary persons.
Said pornography will then be used for some kind of financial shenanigan -- either a major stock manipulation (most likely of a large entertainment company, but possibly of an insurer/bank by causing them to pay out completion insurance on a major production) or, for the weirder but smaller payoff, a move in the royalty backed bond secondary market.
Said pornography will then be used for some kind of financial shenanigan -- either a major stock manipulation (most likely of a large entertainment company, but possibly of an insurer/bank by causing them to pay out completion insurance on a major production) or, for the weirder but smaller payoff, a move in the royalty backed bond secondary market.
