OMFG, there is so much just utterly and completely wrong in that article, I scarce know where to begin.
The “Hero’s Journey” archetype isn’t a feature of cyberpunk so much as it’s a feature of narrative structure. Likewise, the concept of the individual progression is also a feature of narrative structure. The central criticism, which this piece calls “cyberpunk”, is a critique of narrative.
Even saying that, there are literal mountains of SF/F from the last 35+ years which don’t necessarily follow either of those structural elements - I’m thinking of Steven Erikson’s “Malazan Book of the Fallen”, or China Miéville’s “Bas Lag” novels, or, more recently, Megan O’Keefe’s “Velocity Weapon” or, even more appropriately, Carrie Vaugh’s “Coast Road” Novels or Emily St. John Mandel’s “Station Eleven”.
If the author sincerely thinks SF hasn’t moved past cyberpunk, then he just hasn’t been reading enough.
And they’ve solemnly promised that they won’t use the dataset for Google Ads.
Note that the assurance just refers to their Ads. They give no assurances as to other uses of the dataset, or to whom they intend to sell access to said dataset.
The website mentions Namecoin, which is based on the same tach but is not actually Bitcoin. Using this would suck, asolutely. I know too little of the resources used by nNamecoin, though.
The interesting part about this project is the approach to decentralization.
Yeah, I’ve run into some folks stumping for this thing a few times… On reddit, they tend to be people making the software stack, trying to get people to use their coin so they can hold an ICO, but seem to be unable to explain why this is different than the million of other systems that don’t waste resources like proof of work coin mining does.
I do like decentralization, but not at the cost of our environmental conditions.
The people who are shilling for this tech really seem to be many of the same people who stand to benefit from it as a commercial profitability thing. There’s no real world application I can see that’s not as easily accomplished using other non-blockchain tech - like beaker/dat
Or, as described in #meta:
OMFG, there is so much just utterly and completely wrong in that article, I scarce know where to begin.
The “Hero’s Journey” archetype isn’t a feature of cyberpunk so much as it’s a feature of narrative structure. Likewise, the concept of the individual progression is also a feature of narrative structure. The central criticism, which this piece calls “cyberpunk”, is a critique of narrative.
Even saying that, there are literal mountains of SF/F from the last 35+ years which don’t necessarily follow either of those structural elements - I’m thinking of Steven Erikson’s “Malazan Book of the Fallen”, or China Miéville’s “Bas Lag” novels, or, more recently, Megan O’Keefe’s “Velocity Weapon” or, even more appropriately, Carrie Vaugh’s “Coast Road” Novels or Emily St. John Mandel’s “Station Eleven”.
If the author sincerely thinks SF hasn’t moved past cyberpunk, then he just hasn’t been reading enough.
I didn’t get the impression that the author believes the only sci-fi coming out now is cyberpunk, but rather the “Why is is even still a thing today?”
Another genre of scifi has taken off over the past decade, decade and a half: Dystopian Fiction. But, my explanation for “why” remains the same.
And they’ve solemnly promised that they won’t use the dataset for Google Ads.
Note that the assurance just refers to their Ads. They give no assurances as to other uses of the dataset, or to whom they intend to sell access to said dataset.
Bitcoin?
What a waste of resources.
The website mentions Namecoin, which is based on the same tach but is not actually Bitcoin. Using this would suck, asolutely. I know too little of the resources used by nNamecoin, though.
The interesting part about this project is the approach to decentralization.
Yeah, I’ve run into some folks stumping for this thing a few times… On reddit, they tend to be people making the software stack, trying to get people to use their coin so they can hold an ICO, but seem to be unable to explain why this is different than the million of other systems that don’t waste resources like proof of work coin mining does.
I do like decentralization, but not at the cost of our environmental conditions.
Same.
The people who are shilling for this tech really seem to be many of the same people who stand to benefit from it as a commercial profitability thing. There’s no real world application I can see that’s not as easily accomplished using other non-blockchain tech - like beaker/dat
Wait, Python 4??
I don’t think people have quite got their heads around to Py3 yet…