“Of course social problems have technological solutions. All problems have technological solutions. “Social problems, specifically, are problems arising directly from flaws in the interacting sophont entities that make up society. Imperfect actors generate imperfect acts. Corruption, bigotry, xenophobia, cognitive bias, irrational emotivations… whatever you care to name, these are merely
Pals With Jesus: Subverted, at least while you’re still alive and therefore not part of the Transcendent soul-ocean; while you can have a much more personal relationship with an eikone than most people can have with their gods – they have e-mail addresses, for one thing – it’s still a
Yes, that means it’s bad sketch time again here at the Eldraeverse… so here, have an interface vehicle. LOWARI-CLASS PINNACE/SHUTTLE Operated by: Various starports and near-orbit stations; capital ships. Type: Pinnace / shuttle (belly-lander) Construction: Llyn Standard Manufacturing, ICC & various licensees. Atmosphere-capable: Yes. Gravity well-capable: Yes. Personnel: 3
Overheating: A problem everywhere. The logistics of a post-scarcity society may have eliminated most material-supply problems; advanced ergtech may have made energy not a meaningful practical constraint; computer power may be an absolute bargain everywhere; but even with every fancy high-tech possibility up to and including neutrino-catalyzed cooling in play,
“The Starfall Arc is old, its history a tale of fourteen billion years. A tale, moreover, littered with elder races, ancient Powers, and primordial civilizations godlike in their power – very few of which, and none of the oldest of which, remain extant in the present day. We know the galaxy
Outlaw Town: The most famous, of course, is Nepscia City, Nepscia, the Eldraeverse’s own favorite Wretched Hive. Litash also played host to a few, before it was incinerated. Currently, the hat is generally worn by a number of drifts scattered across the Expansion Regions – and particularly in the Shadow
Peréä System, far orbit, 4016 “Now?” “Okay, go ahead and open your eyes.” “You got me a giant laser! Wait, where did you get me a giant laser? … And, um, why did you get me a giant laser?” “In order: yes, the Laserider Network’s fire sale, and –” “Fire sale?
Our Weapons Will Be Boxy In The Future: Averted in most cases; most guns, while still being fundamentally gun-shaped (ergonomists cringe at the thought of trying to actually hit something with the remote-control-styled ST:TNG phaser, for example) as appropriate to the manipulators of the species they’re designed for,
From Elyse Corídatry, Psychedesigner Excellence, to Advisory Panel, Involuntary Dysfunction Eleemosynary COG, and Adm. Gileon Cularius, Imperial Navy, greetings. Gentlesophs, I understand the urgency of your desire for good news concerning the status of the 14,934 mind-states entrusted to the care of the COG by Adm. Cularius, but must
Here’s another one from the question box: I received a link to this article from a skeptical reader who questions how – or indeed if – the sort of open society I describe could possibly cope with this sort of lone-wolf, home-grown terrorism by individual extremists, needing few contacts and little
Our Showers Are Different: Averted, for the most part. Water has enough other uses, starting with radiation shielding, and is prevalent enough in space – and, of course, being built in space, or launched using nuclear pulse drives, there’s plenty of room in the mass budget for the relevant equipment
ALL SECURITY SITES // INFRARED TRANSPARENT ROUTINE RED LIST // ANATHEMATIC // UPDATE 7122/03/11 WANTED: Misent yilFerish hinGastref (any and all instances) DULY OUTLAWED IN ABSENTIA BY WRIT OF THE COURT OF CLAIMS FOR: reputation gaming, identity theft, forknapping, brainspiking, semislavery, enslavement, sophont trafficking, sophont farming, non-consensual redaction, p-zombification, and sundry