Doing It My Way - Freelance Traveller
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<strong>Doing</strong> <strong>It</strong> <strong>My</strong> <strong>Way</strong><br />
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is very old and has been inhabited by intelligent<br />
star travelers for millions, or perhaps even billions<br />
of years. According to <strong>Traveller</strong> Tech Levels,<br />
nothing resembling the wonders of any sort of<br />
Technological Singularity occurs below TL 18.<br />
However, there have been a few species who<br />
achieved these lofty and amazing heights, the most<br />
notable of them being the Ancients. So, instead of<br />
Grandfather being a uniquely evolved Droyne, you<br />
could instead make him either the first hyperintelligent<br />
Droyne AI, or better yet, a brilliant and<br />
daring Droyne who managed to use advanced technology<br />
to upgrade his intelligence to super-human<br />
(and super-Droyne) levels and thus learned to do<br />
wonders, advancing the Droyne species to TL 18<br />
and beyond. During the ascendency of the Ancients,<br />
there was self-replicating nanotechnology,<br />
hyper-intelligent AIs, as well as all of the existing<br />
wonders of that era.<br />
Modern Space Opera Bibliography<br />
Anthologies<br />
Federations edited by John Joseph Adams<br />
Galactic Empires edited by Gardner Dozois<br />
The Hard SF Renaissance edited by David<br />
G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer<br />
The New Space Opera edited by Gardner<br />
Dozois and Jonathan Strahan<br />
The New Space Opera 2 edited by Gardner<br />
Dozois and Jonathan Strahan<br />
Novels<br />
Ian M. Banks: The “Culture” Series<br />
Excession<br />
Look to Windward<br />
Matter<br />
Linda Nagata<br />
Deception Well<br />
Vast<br />
Alastair Reynolds: “Revelation Space” Universe<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
The Prefect<br />
Chasm City<br />
Revelation Space<br />
Redemption Ark<br />
Absolution Gap<br />
Alastair Reynolds (Other works)<br />
House of Suns<br />
Pushing Ice<br />
Charles Stross<br />
Glasshouse<br />
Singularity Sky<br />
Iron Sunrise<br />
Vernor Vinge<br />
A Deepness In the Sky<br />
A Fire Upon The Deep<br />
Scott Westerfeld<br />
The Risen Empire<br />
The Killing of Worlds<br />
Footnotes<br />
1<br />
Modern augmented reality: http://www.wired.com/<br />
epicenter/2009/12/google-introduces-real-time-search-googlegoggles/<br />
Here‘s a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?<br />
v=Hhgfz0zPmH4&feature=player_embedded<br />
2 Using Technology to give humans a perfect direction<br />
sense: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.04/esp.html<br />
3<br />
Artificial vision using tongue electrodes: http://<br />
nihrecord.od.nih.gov/newsletters/2009/03_20_2009/story3.htm<br />
4<br />
Robots doing science: http://www.newscientist.com/<br />
article/dn16890-robot-scientist-makes-discoveries-withouthuman-help.html<br />
5 Amazing robot hand: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-<br />
KxjVlaLBmk&feature=player_embedded<br />
6<br />
Miniature robots: http://www.physorg.com/<br />
news181208607.html<br />
7 Miniature scientific equipment: http://en.wikipedia.org/<br />
wiki/Lab-on-a-chip<br />
8<br />
L a y a r a u g m e n t e d r e a l i t y : h t t p : / /<br />
www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/21/layars-augmented-realitybrowser-literally-more-than-meets-the-eye/<br />
9<br />
Cellphones and Third World Poverty: http://<br />
www.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/magazine/13anthropology-t.html<br />
10 Personal Area Networks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<br />
Personal_area_network<br />
11<br />
Controlling electronics by brainwaves: http://<br />
singularityhub.com/2009/05/22/the-emotiv-headset-gaming-with<br />
-thoughts-alone/<br />
12<br />
Stem cells curing sickle cell anemia: http://<br />
www.usnews.com/health/family-health/articles/2009/12/09/bone<br />
-marrow-transplants-may-cure-sickle-cell-in.html<br />
13<br />
Gene therapy to enhance athletes: http://<br />
www.washingtonpost.com/wp -dyn/articles/A42270-<br />
2005Mar16.html & http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2004/jul/11/<br />
sport.health<br />
14<br />
Vernor Vinge‘s Essay on the Singularity: http://<br />
mindstalk.net/vinge/vinge-sing.html<br />
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