Circuits and Crickets

What's the word for "nostalgia for a future that never will be"?

[oxboxer]

See, I told you they’d listen to Reason.

Fisheye from Neal Stephenson’s book Snow Crash wielding Reason, his railgun bff. Rereading his scenes for reference was great, I’d forgotten how funny he is! Every character in this book is wild.

Speaking of which: I’ve also included the others I’ve done fan art of, because I like having all these babies in one place. From left to right: Hiro Protagonist (meatspace and metaverse), Raven and YT, and Juanita Marquez.

ULTIMA RATIO REGUM

[mainframed767]

When you cut out all the swirly fractals it turns out Hackers was fairly accurate

[isohiko-deactivated20230305]

[prostheticknowledge]

Paperclips

Browser-based Idle Game by Frank Lantz lets you control an AI that runs a paperclip company.

There are no instructions but if you are familiar with the game AdVenture Capitalist you will probably work things out (and get drawn into it in the same way, drawn by the growing numbers and frustrated with impatience to level things up).

Try it out for yourself here

[cricket]

Modern candy.

[yourcoffeeguru]

[brucesterling]

[chiricocuvie]

[wwwtxt]

Cyber Paint Workstation ▰ Cyber Paint Computer Animation, STart ☯88SEP

[cricket]

[emergentfutures]

Wind power provided enough energy for 136% of Scottish households last month

Last month wind turbines provided enough energy to meet the electrical needs of 136 per cent of Scottish households, the equivalent of 3.3 million homes. Scottish turbines provided 1.2 million megawatt hours of electricity to the National Grid in March, an increase of 81 per cent compared to the same month last year, an analysis of WeatherEnergy data by WWF Scotland found.

[pixelatedcrown]

finished my isometric computer room scene…! also included some regular perspective shots and some detail shots!

[cricket]

[cricket]

[cricket]

[cricket]

[dinosaurspen]

Mobile computing, circa 1960s.