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SF Blind Spots

Posted on 2 October, 2018
by Ton Zijlstra

Charles Stross asks about blind spots in subject matter for science fiction. The posting itself is worth a read, and the over 500 comments are worth a browse just as much.

Posted in Day to Day | Tagged near future sf, nearfuture, sf, story telling

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Blog Interdependent Thoughts maintained since 2002 by Ton Zijlstra.
European citizen in a networked world. Based in the Netherlands, living in Europe, working globally. There are no Others. There is just me and many of you.

I write about how our digital and networked world changes how we work, learn, decide and organize. I explore the tools and strategies that help us navigate the networked world. I am passionate about increasing people's ability to act (knowledge), and their ability to change (learning). Key-words: open data, open government, fablabs, making, complexity, networked agency, networked learning, ethics by design.

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On this day…

There are 9 posts found on this site published on March 20

  • March 20, 2020
    • Waar is de RIVM data? Zodat we zelf beter in actie kunnen komen! Waar is de RIVM data? Hoe kunnen we het RIVM helpen transparanter te zijn, en data ter beschikking te stellen die anderen helpt in actie te komen? #opendata #covid19 cc @dutchspring @MatthijsSienot
  • March 20, 2016
    • Enjoying Indie SF In the past months I have increasingly read books from independent authors that self-publish. It seems there is a growing supply of it, and of increasing quality. Fellow nerd Peter Kaptein has been cutting his own path into the writing jungle, and I enjoy following his reports on his blog and on Facebook chronicling his […]
  • March 20, 2010
    • Maker Households – My Proposal for SHiFT Next month will see the next edition of the SHiFT (“social and human ideas for technology”) conference in Lisbon, Portugal. The theme is Do It Yourself (DIY). Last week I sent in my proposal, for a talk that tries to combine the sweeping impact of digitization with the wider context of a fully connected world […]
  • March 20, 2006
    • Off to G.O.R. I”m off to G.O.R. – General Online Research conference the coming days. Or rather I am commuting to GOR these days, as Bielefeld, Germany is actually closer than most Dutch cities in the west to me. I am as organised as ever. Found out this morning I hadn’t paid yet (Now done, thanks to PayPal), […]
  • March 20, 2005
    • Trust versus Risk Taking At the Creative Capital Conference last week I joined a session on ‘Open Innovation‘ led by Frans Nauta of Kennisland and the Dutch Innovation Platform.Frans kicked the session of with the question which words we associated with ‘Open Innovation’. The group came up with things like, curiousity, passion, trust, risk taking, making mistakes and other terms. […]
  • March 20, 2004
    • BlogWalk Topic Exchange All entries on BlogWalk are aggregated at Topic Exchange
    • Emerging Acceptable Behaviour One of my observations during BlogWalk yesterday, is how the advent of digital cameras has brought new behaviour to become acceptable. As a child I remember that taking pictures sort of always involved posing. ‘Hold on, let me adjust the camera, ok now smile’, and click. Pictures were made by artificially ‘freezing the frame’. Digital […]
    • BlogWalk 1.0, impressions The first BlogWalk was a success. We didn’t walk much, and we certainly didn’t blog, but we had a great day regardless. I’ll be posting impressions in the coming days, was already blogging in my head as I took a shower just now to shake of the fatigue, but let’s start with showing you pictures. […]
  • March 20, 2003
    • The 7 habits of highly effective bloggers Mike Sanders in his blog Keep Trying, translates Covey’s book on the 7 habits of highly effective people to blogging. While always somewhat sceptic of lists like “the 7 best ways to” and the “top 10 critical success factors of” and the “just do this and you’ll be happy and famous too” sort of message […]
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