Technological Fantasies

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2009-01-06T15:40:00.000-08:00

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http://dougwilson.rack111.com/techfantasies.html

2008-05-19T15:35:00.000-07:00

If clicking on the title of this post doesn't work, try http://dougwilson.rack111.com/techfantasies.html

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sex-religion-politics

2008-05-17T13:36:00.000-07:00

I have a new blog. There are technological fantasies associated with each of these three "sensitive topics", but I will spell those out in another post.
For now, here are links for easy access:

Please see these blogs:

FindCompatibles devoted
to matching people with friends, lovers, jobs, places to live and so on,
but doing so in ways that will actually work, using good math, good algorithms, good analysis.

This blog, Technological Fantasies devoted to future stuff, new ideas, things that might be invented or might happen, such as what is listed above and below.

Practical Immortality yes, practical immortality. Don't write this off as
insanity, please. See the first entry in the blog first.

Or, (oops!) here:

Practical Immortality hmmm. Slight spelling mistake. Use the above
link instead.

Related Web Pages are, of course,
FindCompatibles,
Technological Fantasies
and Practical
Immortality, plus Social
Tech and my own home
page. For now these are (probably) all identical.

dpw

cross-reference web pages

2008-05-16T12:10:00.000-07:00

Please see http://technologicalfantasies.awardspace.com

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Don't you have Tech Fantasies? Bet you do.

2008-05-15T14:14:00.000-07:00

Of course you have Technological Fantasies. Why not post them here? Well, of course, you have not found this blog, have you? If you are not able to read this please let me know immediately! The problem of finding suitable blogs to post in is discussed in my FindCompatibles blog on this site. The only one of my three blogs that I can find myself
is my Practical Immortality blog, a technological fantasy and more, someday not just a fantasy.
But none of these blogs has any posts from other people, none of whom have been able to find any of them. Thus my ongoing tech fantasy about someway people can be easily matched to blogs, web sites and interested people.

dpw

related blogs

2008-05-03T10:52:00.000-07:00

I have two other blogs, which should be mentioned again. If anyone has other blogs which might be related to this one (or the other two) please advertise them here.

The first of my blogs is FindCompatibles. It describes something much harder to do than anyone seems to imagine, almost impossible, except for those who think it is trivially easy.
The ability to find truly compatible social relationships, jobs, and other important aspects of a person's social environment is truly important, important but difficult. In the first post on that blog I outline the difficulties and the extraordinary advantages of a way of finding compatibles.
Please look at that post and others. I would especially like to hear from people who disagree with what I have said there.

The second of my blogs is Practical Immortality, a technological fantasy if ever there was one.
I think it can be more than just a fantasy, hence the word 'Practical'. Don't believe me? Let me know, please.

dpw

Technologial Fantasies

2008-05-01T15:45:00.000-07:00

I used to have a web site of this name. Should have kept it alive, but didn't. Anyway, I have have many technological fantasies and hope you have more. Here are some which evolved during the writing of a giant novel.

1. A system for actually finding compatible people for various reasons, one which would actually work, unlike such things as dating services.
See the FindCompatibles blog on this site for information.

2. Practical immortality in a virtual world, but an actual transfer of personality to that medium, not just creation of a copy. See the Practical Immortality blog on this site for information.

3. Small computers which are entirely wireless, getting power from sunlight, communicating by digital radio. One example from the book is a computer the size of a grain of sand. In that chapter one of the characters displays a whole handfull of such sand, which can not only communicate by digital radio but display text across the combined surfaces of the grains, which have microscopic LEDs on all surfaces. Indeed, using piezoelectric effects, this handfull of sand can receive and process spoken sound, then reply, again with piezoelectric vibrations.

4. A device to be worn, which has enough computer power and powerful enough digital radio links to other computers so it can draw on an enormous computing network. As well as the simple task of acting as
a portable phone, this device would support a variety of simple but powerful commands. In the book I mention many, but in particular SysTalk which does not take contact information for any person as a parameter, but simply scans the globe for the best possible match, the person who is the best for you to talk to at that moment, (and the most likely to be free to take your call). Another command is SysTeach, which also takes no parameters but just begins or continues a lesson that is the most appropriate for you at that moment.

Oh, many many more things, my technological fantasies. I would like to hear yours.

dpw