All the stories on the FP are about labor relations and corporate shenanigans. So anyway, do you like Star Trek or Star Wars better? Anybody still ike to read old school sci fi, for example I really love Poul Anderson’s Polesotechnic League stories - the swashbuckling adventures of intersteller trador Nicholas van Rijn and his Solar Spice and Liquors company, David Falkayne, et al. Good old basic space opera.
I just started reading the dune series, after watching the movies, and I’m having a great time with it! Somehow the books do a better job of detailing the conversations between all the different characters, and setting the stage for movie 2.
Star Trek for the technology and exploration (both of space and the human condition). Star Wars because WOW that dude just moved that shit with his FREAKIN’ MIND!
Think about the technology we have now - a lot of it was inspired by Star Trek technology. Communicators -> smartphones/watches, shuttle -> Rovers, non invasive medical diagnosis, large screens, video calls. And that’s just from TOS. And I’m pretty sure people are still working on creating Transporters.
DS9 > TNG > BSG
I’d put ‘The Expanse’ at the head of the line
The Expanse is great
New age sci-fi, but you have GOT to read the Murder Bot books. They are absolutely incredible. They’ve also won Nebula and Hugo awards.
Martha Wells… cool, thanks!
Also: children of time series, as well as the bobiverse series
I haven’t read Children of Ruin yet, but Children of Time was awesome.
Ruin is awesome. The story is like going on an adventure.
People are split on Memory, but I like it. It’s just written differently
I’ve kind of felt the same way, would rather have a somewhat-stronger focus on technology in this community.
The current top few pages of posts are pretty much all just talking about drama at social media companies, which frankly isn’t really what I think of as technology.
That being said, “technology” kind of runs the gamut in various news sources. I’ve often seen “technology news” basically amount to promoting new consumer gadgets, which isn’t exactly what I’d like to see from the thing, either. I don’t really want to see leaked photos of whatever the latest Android tablet from Lenovo or whatever is either.
I’d be more interested in reading about technological advances and changes.
I suppose that if someone wants to start a more-focused community, I’d also be willing to join that, give it a shot.
EDIT: I’d note that the current content here kind of mirrors what’s on Reddit at /r/Technology, which is also basically drama at social media companies. I suppose that there’s probably interest from some in that. It’s just not really what I’m primarily looking for.
I made [email protected] for all the drama at social media companies
Hah, clever name!
Is social media not technology? If you don’t want to see it, there are text filters.
By “social media” you must mean “echo chamber”. Criticism is completely appropriate.
By “social media” you must mean “echo chamber”.
Why…would you ever think that? Is everyone here echoing your sentiment?
Criticism is completely appropriate.
I wasn’t saying it was inappropriate, just inaccurate.
Neither, baratna. I am of The Expanse.
Not a fan of either but I did enjoy watching Lost in space recently. Also enjoyed reading Neuromancer
Everything I needed to learn about SciFi I learned from watching Prisoners Of Gravity on TVO. The host Rick Green was always interesting to listen to. I learned there was far more scifi than just TrekWars
Star Trek for me, I think (though oddly, I’ve played in a Star Wars tabletop RPG but never a Star Trek RPG). My wife and I started watching Deep Space 9 from the beginning about a month ago. I had seen some of it a while back (not everything, busy with school at the time). She had never seen it. We just finished season 1.
I don’t think it qualifies as “old school”, but I do like the Vorkosigan books.
Lately I’ve been on kind of a Scalzi kick. I’m partway through the Interdependency series.
+1 for an actual tech focused community. I think it has to be focused on software or hardware as a rule. News about stocks, CEOs, rebranding etc should not be allowed. Maybe put them in tech_news or something.
I want to read about what new feature the openbsd folks are working on or innovations by the quebes os team or a new RISC based laptop or the raspberry pi 420 that can play half life 3.
I think it has to be focused on software or hardware as a rule.
I don’t. Those fields are but small slivers in the realm of technology, and they’re not even particularly novel any more. A community dedicated to one or both of them might make sense, but there’s no reason to let them dominate the technology community.
News about stocks, CEOs, rebranding etc should not be allowed.
I agree with you there.
Fair enough, I would have thought most things would be related to either hardware or software but I could be overlooking something. I was just trying to propose a sensible approach that could be a starting point.
Seriously, the mods need to step. This is a technology community, not a business community.
“Business” also exists. If it’s news about the business, not the technology, it should go to Business.
It might be too technical for some, but Linux Weekly News (lwn.net) has been a long-running source of articles dating back to the 1990s, if memory serves aright, that’s kind of in that ballpark.
EDIT: Hmm. It looks like at some point, some of their articles went subscriber-only, though.
I completely agree with all the people regarding more “Technology” news, like MIT stacking more transistors onto chips breakthrough.
When I was looking for a tech community to subscribe to, I wasn’t expecting this… 🙈
I completely agree with all the people regarding more “Technology” news, like MIT stacking more transistors onto chips breakthrough.
When I was looking for a tech community to subscribe to, I wasn’t expecting this… 🙈
[email protected] (self-promotion, I am a mod there) covers semiconductor related topics pretty well.
That being said, some articles do include business and tech news.
Love TNG and DS9, currently reading the Ringworld series
I love both Star Trek and Star Wars, but Star Wars has a lot of really toxic fans. These days I tend to be a quiet Star Wars fan.
