Category: Future History

As you may be aware, there is little point in marking time on Venus by its motion relative to the Sun. The orbit of Venus is nearly a perfect circle, and the planet has no axial tilt, so it has no seasons. Any point along the orbit is essentially indistinguishable from any other one, and return to it has no special meaning. Thus, there is no solar calendar on Venus. Instead, from the very beginning of the human settlement, the universally accepted calendar on Venus has been a geo calendar, based on the motion of Venus relative to Earth. The…

From an e-World ad circulated among the Coalition’s elite subscriber travel networks: Do you have an excess of processing power? Have your posthuman slaves been generating more than you can spend? Have you never been to Venus? Then travel in luxury on the Lark of Magnetotail, experience the exotic locales in the sulfuric acid clouds, feel the thrill of danger mingling with the Homo Venusienne in their native element, and go on a one of a kind visit to the restricted access zone on the surface to observe dismantling of an underground fortress from the Wizard War II era. Please…

Hi. This is Rina reporting from the 31st century. The current state of research on hive minds brings into my mind a curious fallacy that used to be fairly common in the science fiction of the 20th and early 21st centuries. A “hive mind,” as is well known, is a conscious entity comprised of multiple brains (or similar processing units), similar to how a brain is comprised of neurons. In science fiction of a millennium ago, it was common to assume that the individuals making such hive minds would be very similar to one another (a la the Borg in…