books

A nifty compilation of books that glimpsed the future before it happened, relating/connecting/ascribing each of the literary predictions with the actual/corresponding discovery/invention/emergence.

Complete list on the other side of the jump.

The name says pretty much all there is to know: many a quote (600+) directly from Sherlock Holmes' sleuthing adventures, all under one tome.

From an effort of Gerard Van der Leun.

• The clash of opposites;

• War ending, spherical, time stopping (and, thus, travelling), stasis fields;

• The archetypical mind-machine interface/melding;

• Holograms of loves lost;

• Tiny video-cameras that are spread in the wilderness, clinging to any species that moves, allowing for unmatched surveillance capabilities;

• Progress "stopped" (an oxymoron?) by edict;

• An unlikely (as they are) anti-hero;

• War as peace and peace as war;

• Technology (and the lack of it) and ingenuity;

• Artificial intelligence;

• ...

Oh! And the genious of Vernor Vinge, of course!

Coding evolutionary processes with Processing.

From Daniel Shiffman's book: "The Nature of Code".

"Mandatory" reading for those trying to understand what it means (and how we got) to be human.

All the remaining members of the aluded race would also benefit greatly from reading it.

By Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan.