People say the world we live in now is built on seemingly tiny choices people made hundreds or thousands of years ago. Railroad tracks are based on the width of the axel of a Roman carriage for instance. Aircars are[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for May, 2016
The United States Army brass considered the Jane 1.0 voice system to be successful despite the complaints of their soldiers. They expected their soldiers to complain after all. And it was good to have a system unique to the Army.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In 2205, we learned the answer to one of the oldest questions of all time. Are we alone? They brought medicines with them that nearly wiped out diseases, and extended the human lifespan into the centuries. They helped us study[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The B-14 Marauder won the competition for a new American bomber as part of the Fleet 2300 Project. It went from competition to deployment in less than ten years, and enjoyed mass production for decades before being replaced in the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Apache were the first Indian Nation to focus their efforts on going to the stars. Just as they became more nomadic on Earth, they began building a new space industry devoted to small hypercapable craft. I remember saving one[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jane 1.0 was typical of American military engineering of the time. Her software took up far more room than comparable civilian systems due to extensive security and backup subroutines. Her hardware was slower and more expensive because it was designed[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Most people do not know that the genesis of the F-18 Tomcat was in the Fleet 2300 Project. While one design team worked on the Avenger, another series of teams competed to create the replacement for the Hellcat along more[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Indian Nations did not focus on interstellar colonization before The War. Many of their people left of course, just as many people of every nation went to the stars. But the nations themselves never focused on leaving Earth. If[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The United States Army’s original Jane 1.0 was a highly secured software system similar to the other voice interface programs of the 1900s and early 2000s. They used a voice actress to record her speaking parts and Jane spent most[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I nearly died a month ago. My appendix burst. It burst big. I blew a 1.5 centimeter hole in the side of an organ that is only 2 centimeters thick. I have been healthy my entire life. I have never[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…