OBE

[andysocial]

Overcome By Events...It's a phrase one of my 8 bosses uses on occasion. I've realized, as I've slowly resumed writing a story I began in 1987, that every idea I had that was new and original when I put it on paper (ok, in bits) has been done by someone else.

Among those ideas:

• Traffic Automation (done by DKM in The Long Run
• Gyro-stabilized hovercars (done by DKM in Emerald Eyes)
• Remote-control VR warfare (Haldeman in Forever Peace)
• Major consensual fully immersive VR system (done by Stephenson in Snow Crash)
• Artificial island used for nanotech research banned elsewhere (done by Egan in Distress)
• Reverse auctions for durable goods (Priceline anyone?)
• Paper-based books become rare (Stephenson - Diamond Age)
• Commercial-skipping technology ubiquitous (Tivo and Replay)

It's obvious - I have to write faster. Or maybe I can just sell my ideas to other people to use for their stories...

Comments

[c-feightner.livejournal.com]

just write it, don't worry about revolutionizing...Stephen King doesn't, neither does Clancy

New Ideas

[andysocial]

Science Fiction, my chosen milieu, is dependent on ideas.

Re: New Ideas

[c-feightner.livejournal.com]

OK, Gerard Depardieu! Ha! I've got it:

"Zorak wanted only one thing for the annual celebration of his forhtcoming, hence it to be a PDA of three numbers, not two, not four, but three, of the sort with too many input keys and image replication technology, so aptly referred to as a 'plie'. Alas Zorak..."

see you tomorrow - don't forget the pigs in a blanket