and later in life I was paid to rob the rubbish pits and fallen down outbuildings of nineteenth century Americans and to process the resulting artefacts for further study, or at least for storage in acid free boxes in a back room somewhere.
That's pretty awesome.
It's brilliantly odd, and I thank you for the sharing of it.
You're welcome. I got it from Dean.
Levitation via psychic batteries and a worldwide communication network in the 1840s... if one assumes it all somehow works just as Spear would have it, but that humanity continue being our grotty, misbehaving selves, there's all sorts of potential for gritty adventure, para-cyberpunk dystopia, and who knows what else.
Of course, there's always the possibility it did work in our world—or is going to—just not on the schedule Spear was aiming for. You wouldn't even have to squint very hard to claim the Singularity might be the coming of the wireless Messiah.
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That's pretty awesome.
It's brilliantly odd, and I thank you for the sharing of it.
You're welcome. I got it from Dean.
Levitation via psychic batteries and a worldwide communication network in the 1840s... if one assumes it all somehow works just as Spear would have it, but that humanity continue being our grotty, misbehaving selves, there's all sorts of potential for gritty adventure, para-cyberpunk dystopia, and who knows what else.
Of course, there's always the possibility it did work in our world—or is going to—just not on the schedule Spear was aiming for. You wouldn't even have to squint very hard to claim the Singularity might be the coming of the wireless Messiah.