Take a look at this little technological innovation.
Is there a story in it?
Posted by Kathleen Dalton Woodbury (Member # 59) on :
And here are some other possible triggers for stories, I hope.
Posted by Bent Tree (Member # 7777) on :
Thank you Kathleen. I have been using something related to that in one of my worlds. That article gave me some new insight. Great link.
Posted by Robert Nowall (Member # 2764) on :
If you got sick, would it still work?
If you went over your minutes, would you get oxygen-deprived?
Posted by Wolfe_boy (Member # 5456) on :
Robert, I think I'd be more worried about what happens when your battery meter starts so show less than 25% charge left. Get me a Red Bull stat! I've got a conference call in twenty!
Jayson Merryfield
Posted by JeanneT (Member # 5709) on :
I dunno. My reaction was pure -- EWWWW.
Posted by Bent Tree (Member # 7777) on :
That tech could be used in so many better ways.
Posted by NoTimeToThink (Member # 5174) on :
quote:That tech could be used in so many better ways.
I think a lot of progress and innovation comes from that direction - someone from one discipline discovers something, but they don't have the right frame of reference to see how to most effectively use it, so they make a fly-swatter with the new technology. Someone looking at it from a different direction applies the discovery differently and takes us to the stars. Paradigm shift?
In another vein (pun unintended), I never thought about the impact that rapidly evolving technologies have had on writing science fiction. Sort of like computers - you buy the top of the line model, but it's obsolete next week. As a writer, you try to imagine how things will be in some future. By the time you are done writing, your idea has either: 1) Been proven to be totally impossible and it looks stupid. 2) Been invented and exists in the real world, but your imagined version seems strange instead of revolutionary because it isn't the same as the real one. 3) Been invented, and you were SO VISIONARY that yours works just like the real thing, which means your story isn't science FICTION anymore.
I bet Wells & Verne didn't have to worry about the speed of change...
Posted by Bent Tree (Member # 7777) on :
It is a flimsy dream of mine that my decendants can read my sci-fi in a time when it has become a reality. What a way to leave a stamp.