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Month: August 2010

Your “welcome personette”

Greetings from the 31st century! I’m Rina, a character from Pink Noise, a science fiction novella by Leo Korogodski. I’ll blog here about my world (your future and your present with a science-fictional “hindsight”), about the author (including his reviews of other stories, movies, and the like), and many other things—from “future history” to “software archaeology.” A quick note about this place—and about myself, for one reflects the other. I’m a personette, which means that I’m an aspect of my ship’s collective mind, an interface that our ship presents to the crew members. When we have a visitor, we give…

Introduction

“I’ve suffered for my Art” (and now it’s your turn) —Turkey City Lexicon This part of the DareAngel spaceship library is devoted to the background research done by Leo Korogodski for his stories. Do not worry; you won’t suffer… much. The Other Design Brain and Evolution Galaxies in Plasma Lab

The Other Design

My work on Pink Noise included much research, exposing me to some very interesting science, which I will attempt to summarize here. We live during exciting times, at the beginning of another major scientific revolution. Not that long ago, if anyone had asked me what was the greatest scientific discovery of the 20th century, I would have been stumped, not knowing which scientific discipline to favor: physics, genetics, computer science? Now, I wouldn’t hesitate a bit before naming Ilya Prigogine (1917–2003) and his discovery of spontaneous self-organization in systems far from equilibrium—because, among other things, it spares me from having…