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While Earth contains a lot of serious predictions about how civilisation may develop in the next fifty* years, it also contain a number of less serious ideas (at least, let's hope they weren't serious!)
THIS CATEGORY ALSO CONTAINS TOPICS THAT HAVE NOT YET BEEN PUT INTO THEIR PROPER PLACES (Help please?)
Ideas, such as:
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MISC ITEMS THAT MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE ALREADY BEEN CAREFULLY LISTED IN THE MAIN COMPILATION
- The Partition of the Soviet Union, didn't quite make it into the novel EARTH in a highly explicit form. Still, it is among the few novels from 1989 that IMPLIED a coming breakup.
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The possibility that human-made singularities might cause worry about a manufactured black hole falling into the Earth.
http://arstechnica.com/journals/science.ars/2007/05/18/black-holes-for-everyone
Is David some sort of time traveller from 10-20 years in the future, or just freakishly prescient? Readers of Earth will find the following eerily reminescent.
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Cooperation and Competition in evolution.NYTimes article reminded me of "Earth".
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/31/science/31prof.html
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http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=834
UK Officers Wear Brin's Tru-Vu Lenses.
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You mention at one point that Daisy McClennon's income comes from digital restorations of old movies, and also editing some old "languid classics like The Terminator or Delieverence" into shorter films to fit the time spans of the modern person. So imagine my surprise when I found "The 10 Minute Theater" and its version of The Terminator.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jazlLFg8cXk
"A quarter-century ago, American rocket scientists proposed the "Star Wars" defense system to knockout Soviet missiles with laser beams. They are now aiming their lasers at another airborne threat: the mosquito. In a Seattle lab, researchers watched a glass box of bugs. Every few seconds, a contraption 100 feet away shot a beam that hit buzzing mosquitoes, one by one, with a spot of red light. This particular test used a non-lethal laser. But the Cold War missile-defense strategy will soon be reborn as a WMD: Weapon of Mosquito Destruction. [...] Technology might one day draw a laser barrier around a house or village that could kill or blind the bugs...." EXACTLY AS PORTRAYED IN "EARTH" (1989)
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http://www.taserpromo.com/evidence-com/
Taser has launched a wearable computer, called Axon, that will let cops record every minute of their day and upload it to a secure website. From there, they can share their favorite memories with friends, family, and jurors.<i> "Our Axon and Evidence.com technology will be a lifeline to protect truth," says Steve Tuttle, the VP of Taser. For years, cops around the world have been accused of being a little too eager to reach out and stun someone. The new camera is head mounted, so it will record everything the user lays his eyes on. Each headset plugs into a Linux powered computer or just plug the recorder into the Synapse docking station, and all of the evidence will be automatically uploaded to Taser. </i> Explicitly predicted in both EARTH and The Transparent Society.
* Actually, at the time of writing, it's more like thirty four!
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