The Arrows of Time - Greg Egan

The master commits trilogy :-

" * Orthogonal Book One: The Clockwork Rocket
o Orion/Gollancz, late 2011 or early 2012.

* Book One: The Clockwork Rocket
* Book Two: The Eternal Flame
* Book Three: The Arrows of Time "



http://www.gregegan.net/ORTHOGONAL/ORTHOGONAL.html

The Eternal Flame - Greg Egan

The master commits trilogy :-

" * Orthogonal Book One: The Clockwork Rocket
o Orion/Gollancz, late 2011 or early 2012.

* Book One: The Clockwork Rocket
* Book Two: The Eternal Flame
* Book Three: The Arrows of Time "



http://www.gregegan.net/ORTHOGONAL/ORTHOGONAL.html

The Clockwork Rocket - Greg Egan

The master commits trilogy :-

" * Orthogonal Book One: The Clockwork Rocket
o Orion/Gollancz, late 2011 or early 2012.

* Book One: The Clockwork Rocket
* Book Two: The Eternal Flame
* Book Three: The Arrows of Time "


3 out of 5

http://www.gregegan.net/ORTHOGONAL/ORTHOGONAL.html

Judges Who Google: The Tip Of The Iceberg? - Greg Egan

""Today, however, a judge need only take a few moments to confirm his intuition by conducting a basic Internet search," it added. "As the cost of confirming one's intuition decreases, we would expect to see more judges doing just that."

You could probably improve the speed of justice even more by just using a wifi-enabled robot judge (as in Harry Harrison's 1959 story Robot Justice) and defense attorneys, like the lawyer program in David Brin's 1990 novel Earth and LEX (Law Expert System) from Greg Egan's 1991 short story The Moat."


3 out of 5

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=2841

Universe May End Sooner Because We Looked - Greg Egan

"Two physicists suggest that we may have brought the universe closer to its death by merely observing dark energy.

“Incredible as it seems, our detection of the dark energy may have reduced the life-expectancy of the universe,” says Laurence Krauss of Case Western Reserve University."

...

"If it's true that we've doomed the universe by looking too closely, you can bet that aliens would not be happy about it. Sure enough, in his 1992 novel Quarantine, science fiction writer Greg Egan wrote about how a quirk in human neurology causes us to collapse the waveforms of anything we observe - and as a result, we've been destroying vast swaths of the cosmos with our telescopes. For this reason, they isolated us from the rest of the universe with the "Bubble:""


4.5 out of 5

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=1320

Screening Software - Greg Egan

"This idea is taken from a 1991 story, which seems very early for this idea. I couldn't find anything like it until at least 1998.We used to get megabytes of automated invective via email, but that, at least, turned out to be easily fixed; we installed the latest screening software, and fed it a few samples of the kind of transmission we preferred not to receive.
From The Moat, by Greg Egan.
Published by Aurealis in 1991"


4 out of 5

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=1276

Spam Filter - Greg Egan

"The earliest reference that I can find in sf for the idea of a spam filter or other way to deal with the problem of spam is in The Moat, a 1991 short story by Greg Egan.

We used to get megabytes of automated invective via email, but that, at least, turned out to be easily fixed; we installed the latest screening software, and fed it a few samples of the kind of transmission we preferred not to receive."


3.5 out of 5

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=1933

Law Expert System (LEX) - Greg Egan

From Technovelgy :-

"Ranjit arrives a few minutes later, carrying a CD; he mimes staggering under its weight. "Latest set of amendments to the UNHCR regulations. It's going to be a long day."

I groan. "I'm having dinner with Rachel tonight. Why don't we just feed the bloody thing to LEX and ask for a summary?"

"And get disbarred at the next audit? No, thanks." The Law Society has strict rules on the use of pseudo-intelligent software - terrified of putting ninety percent of its members out of work. The irony is, they use state-of-the art software, programmed with all the forbidden knowledge, to scrutinize each practice's expert systems and make sure that they haven't been taught more than they're permitted to know."

"There must be twenty firms, at least, who've taught their systems tax law -"

Sure. And they have programmers on seven-figure salaries to cover their tracks."
From The Moat, by Greg Egan.
Published by Aurealis in 1991"


4 out of 5

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=1239