Writing Mojo

Black Jack Geary. I'm reading the Lost Fleet by John G. Henry. I like it a lot, and Ir has given me a better mood, from after the Vatta's War stint.

Reading it makes me make up my mind in what kind of space battles I can write about given my Point of view concerning technology trends.

Information Age. the Unique educational opportunity opened up by the Information Age is quite interesting and has certain trends that has a profound change in the future of skills and efficiency. particularly in the field of attention, education, information management, skills, and experiences. I'm not pertaining to virtual or augmented reality, the implication of brain taping, or some other fantastic technology change, instead of the Mental Discipline required in order to survive and grow in the the Data saturated future created by the information Age.

The Discipline to be able to analyze memes, cultural patters and traditions, and to critcise information's accuracy, source and point of view. This is something I feel will be prevelant in any writing I will have in a sci-fi setting, a future where Attention Discipline is actually a skill that allows people to retain and create individuality in the overshadowing presence of statistics, marketing research, and meme overflow.


Energy Limited Future. A bullet is hurled from a battle rifle falls around 3000 joules, from a magnum it would be around half as much at 1500, a medium pistol would require around further 2/3 at 1,000 joules. The amount of advanced infrastructure required for a laser or a electro-magnetic gun compared to still advancing technology around chemichal propelant would make such fantasy unviable. People may never need to make fussion reactors, when they discover ways of safely disposing of radioactive materials. An age after the Sustainable Technologgy Era, may be a High efficiency Energy Limited Future, where Powerful, Safe and efficient Fission energy can power human space exploration.


New Economic Discipline. Theoretical Money or Resources have a limit as we have experienced in this rebalancing of economic distribution. Becuase regulations and people are not able to trust monetary instruments as much as they previously did, a new market culture springs up from Hard and Real capital gains. This conservative approach to wealth and the equalizing income distribution created an increase in the value of productive captial, and a new class of entrepreurship has made Trade through Starcraft Ownership one of the pillars of a this conservative yet voratious economic model.


Ultra Tech limited Future. This part is the fantasy of Sci-fi, but I'll try to limit it to a few leaps. Mainly: reactionless drives, FTL (jump drives), artificial gravity, and an extention of artificial gravity is accelleration dampers. The assumption of the setting is that, once this kind of technology was safe and comercially viable, research was devouted to keeping it safe, efficient, and affordable.


Quality of Life. As we are reaching the earliest effective cybernetic technology available, options created by stem cell research and artificial prosthesis will allow for an increadible increase in the quality and productivity of life. I plan to make my characters have VERY long Adult or Middle Ages. As adult age is described as the maturity of mental and physical development (and physically a slight down hill)- Characters will experience will still feel their physical state of 20s well into their 30s. Characters plateau with their physical 30s lasting around 30 years, and The same with their 40s, and levels of physical conditions towards incapacitation. Suffice to say, people live for around 150+ years and go through numerous career and life changes in times and places of peace. Of course this is only available if people are able to keep with the maintenance needed for this.



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