So this is my blog. One drop in an endless sea of words. Whisper in the maelstrom, and all that crap.
There is no grand design to this blog. It exists primarily to serve as a repository and dissemination point for some of my favorite pet ideas. As I am a tech geek, sci-fi fan, and just generally a natural futurist, my intent is to fill this empty virtual space with my visions of the world right around the corner. There’s a whole new paradigm approaching, and (if we manage to survive the next few decades) its arrival will herald a new age of Humankind.
This is the stuff that makes me giddy.
What’s it about? I’ll tell you what it’s about: Big, fat, heaping, stinking piles of opinions, that’s what. MY opinions, to be more precise. I am not a professional futurist (if such a thing truly exists). I have no books to my name, I teach no university classes, and I’ve never been accused of TV punditude. I’m just a(n ir)regular dude with a penchant for highfalutin’ words and gee-whiz technology. I grew up on a steady diet of sci-fi and fantasy novels, Popular Science magazines, and all manner of that sort of media geekery.
I get tired, sometimes, of waxing enthusiastic in front of friends and family about some new/cool bit of science or tech that is poised to change the world, only to have them glaze over and give me that pitying look of incomprehension. “Oh, that’s just Travis. It’s easier if you just let him finish – He might bite you if you get out the beating stick again…”
So you get what we have here. I can spew ideas into the void in whatever volume I deem necessary, to be read and consumed by whomever takes an interest. Muahahaaa…
Be aware that this is not meant to be a clearinghouse for hard tech info, but rather a venue for me to snag ideas that fly past me and cram them through my own worldview to see what comes out the other side. Think of it like a running story or monologue exploring what groundbreaking tech might end up doing for us in the real world. My dream is that people will read my ideas and begin to imagine how these advances will affect their own lives, or maybe gain a little more understanding of how these ideas apply to them. When we can imagine a thing, we achieve the potenital to make that thing a reality.
