EEG + VR + Machine Learning = The Real Ready Player One

Although Ready Player One convinced me on large living in VR being the most probable 20-year near-future outcomes, there were aspects of that world that I wasn’t entirely sold on. Namely, how the players manually controlled themselves…

Tarantino’s use of villains and why he won’t make movies anymore in present day

He either has gray characters like Pulp Fiction, or historic monsters like in Inglorious Basters. What they both have in…

Fake video tech to personalise video news

Media is becoming increasingly personalised, but only regarding text articles. When it comes to consuming news on TV and radio, people still sit in front of a TV 9 o’clock every night to watch the same news broadcasted to millions. Same goes for radio at 9…

Privacy — beyond 1984

For a while I’ve looked for an answer as to how could the social media and security climate be altered in a way for an average citizen to share even more information about oneself. Even though privacy is a relevant matter, there is more sharing than ever. But it’ll need another major push…

The abilities and motivations of powerful characters

The powers should be kept low level. Same case when playing around with Sci-Fi elements. I’ve started to write a Spy-Fi story (genre invented by Inception) that has plausible time travel — not a person but data using future quantum…

Personalised influencers becoming streamers at events you can’t attend

Social media and particularly its influencers should become even more personalised (calling them influencers is not really appropriate, let’s switch to ‘streamers’)…