If you've got a snippet of information, but don't know how to present it, just dump it in here.
Someone will get around to it in due course.
Snippet from Contrary Brin comments (Yeah! I know, there's a few more... so why don't you find them?):
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
Yup.
While I am at it. Here are three more that folks wrote in with, that I don't think ever made it onto that wiki. If anyone would care to...
Earth mentions "Trillion Trees" reforestation project... Now a "Billion Trees" project has been announced:
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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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EARTH portrays a character grabbing a file folder and pulling out a data sheet and feeding it into a "sheet reader"... a much more convenient for of storage than a spinning disk. Now see:
Store 256GB on an A4 sheet Techworld Nov. 24, 2006 - New "rainbow technology" allows
data to be encoded into colored geometric shapes and stored in patterns on paper or or plastic sheets at a density of 2.7GB per square inch and and then played back through a computer with a special scanner attached....
http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=6119&m=15453
Sorry about the self-plug, but "prediction markets" are suddenly hot and it'd be nice to have a place to point folks to!
In fact, "Other (non-EARTH) predictive hits" would be a great fannish thing for someone to do! ;-)
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