Wed, 18 Jan 2006
Ringworld
Just finished reading Ringworld, and found it entertaining. What was most interesting was the idea that material science would be the way the future would be impossible to imagine (indestructable spaceship hulls, impossibly strong custom materials that block neutrenos, etc). It gave me the impression that at the time it was written material science was the new hotness; similar to how current sci-fi treat nanotech and extremely pervasive computing as the way the future becomes impossible to imagine (see Accelerando, anything about The Singularity, etc).