Writing and the Future

Story That Takes 1,000 Years to Read [may be] Antidote to Media Whirlwind: "San Francisco conceptual artist and journalist Jonathon Keats is trying to rejuvenate literature in the age of hyperspeed media by writing a story that will take a millennium to tell. The printing process in question is a simple but, as usual with Keats, pretty clever idea. The cover is printed in a double layer of standard black ink, with an incrementally screened overlay masking the nine words. Exposed over time to ultraviolet light, the words will be appear at different rates, supposedly one per century."

I'm not sure if I consider a thousand years to be rejuvenation, more like a clever gimmick that no one will remember tomorrow.

In other news though, physicist Richard Obousy has proposed a "scientifically accurate" design for a "warpship" that closely resembles Ezekiel's vision of "wheels within wheels." Right now the warship is only theoretical, awaiting our ability to harness dark energy. The Discovery Channel website reports that "the shape of the warpship was chosen to optimize the manipulation of surrounding dark energy, creating a spacetime bubble. How exactly the bubble would be created is still a mystery."

The one thing this article doesn't mention is that the wheels within wheels were not supernatural crafts but were the angels themselves. Nor does it mention that every square inch of them is covered in eyeballs. Though that would make for a pretty wild spaceship...