• In 20xx Scifi and Futurism

  • By: Leon Horn
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In 20xx Scifi and Futurism

By: Leon Horn
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  • This series takes you, year by year, into the future, from 2040 through 2195. If you like emerging tech, eco-tech, futurism, perma-culture, apocalyptic survival scenarios, and disruptive science, sit back and enjoy short stories that showcase my research into how the future may play out.
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  • Vigilante Beth Vs. The Tucker Gang

    Vigilante Beth Vs. The Tucker Gang
    Nov 15 2024
    People are trapped in an old abandoned mine shaft. Citizens or townies, a hate group called the Tucker Group, and a lone vigilante whose life mission it is to hunt down the Tuckers who killed her sister. This is a continuation of Beth's story. To follow her story you can listen to episodes 16, 21, 40, and 47.Beth tries to evade the Tucker group after a botched assassination attempt in the nearby town featured in Episode 47. Beth has a broken thumb and uses a portable survival pod to navigate the tunnels. She sets traps and explosives to slow down the Tuckers, who have mobilized a large force to search for her.The Tuckers forcibly separating a young woman named Kristen from her elderly parents. One of the Tuckers, Jesse, tries to bring things in from the storm.After days of being trapped underground as the storm rages on, the townspeople's food and supplies start running low. The Tuckers, who have more provisions, refuse to share. Demise seems certain for the townies but what happens when Beth plans her second attack?Tech Featured:Personal Technology:1. A.R. (Augmented Reality) systems including: - Navigation with 3D hologram maps - Air buttons/pointer interface - Deep listening app for vibration/radio detection - Combat helmets/glasses2. Night vision goggles with: - Radio sensor painting - Echo analysis capabilities - Lydar mode3. Streaming cam bone mountsTransportation/Robotics:1. Four-legged portable survival pod2. Various bot types: - War Dog Bots - Police Bots - Lutin Bots - Camera bots3. Sky cranes and blimps4. Spoke-wheel follow carts5. Legged wagons6. Walker flats (flatbed walkers)Survival/Combat Equipment:1. Smart particle travel mattresses2. Track-ware (military tracking software)3. Smoke bombs that erase DNA/biomarkers4. Camp alarm stakes5. Hand crank camp lamps6. Sulfur eating microbe lamps7. Humidity condenser8. Advanced medical supplies: - Engineered microbes for wound treatment - Self-hardening medical cloth/castCommunications/Computing:1. World web (appears to be an advanced internet)2. Radio silence mode for devices3. Private networks4. V.R. (Virtual Reality) systemsEven everyday items seem advanced:1. Smart water bottles with signal capabilities2. Mechanical stomach (mentioned but not explained)3. Century batteryCommunication/Computing Tech:- World Net (appears to be a global network, currently down)- Canal link (some kind of neural/biological computer interface)- AR (Augmented Reality) goggles/glasses with: - Thermal sensors - Sound sensors - Smell sensors - Night vision - Entity tagging/labeling - 3D mapping capabilities - Hologram displays - Motion detection/highlighting - Target acquisition system - Bone-mounted jack interfaceMilitary/Combat Tech:- War Dogs/War Bots (advanced military robots)- Police Robots (G-32 model mentioned)- Combat paint (thermal masking, light/signal scattering)- Air pistol with: - Liquid air propulsion system - Silencer - Smart targeting system - Poison darts with adjustable lethality - Microbe-based lubricantOther Equipment:- Relay scatter rocket (contains tiny signal relay devices)- Bio-containment suit- P-nine canisters (some kind of explosive device)- Smart particle gel shoe soles with: - Sound reduction - Active noise cancellation- Smart-particle smoke (used against robots): - Electrically charged - Protein particles that react to electric motors - Self-binding capabilities- Brazzo-coated clothes (snake bite protection)Many of the characters in this project appear in future episodes.Using storytelling to place you in a time period, this series takes you, year by year, into the future. From 2040 to 2195. If you like emerging tech, eco-tech, futurism, perma-culture, apocalyptic survival scenarios, and disruptive science, sit back and enjoy short stories that showcase my research into how the future may play out.This is Episode 60 of the podcast "In 20xx Scifi and Futurism." The companion site is https://in20xx.com where you can find a timeline of the future, descriptions of future development, and printed fiction.These are works of fiction. Characters and groups are made-up and influenced by current events but not reporting facts about people or groups in the real world.Copyright © Leon Horn 2024. All rights reserved.
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    51 mins
  • In 2054 The Colony that Starts UBI

    In 2054 The Colony that Starts UBI
    Oct 15 2024

    Safe underground, a colony of 9000 are cared for by robots and automated services. But people are agitated. Youth run wild. How will the citizens adjust to free necessities but little else? Questions of post work, UBI, and life purpose arise.

    Artificial Super Intelligence may save them. A combination of capitalism and needs met for all may save them.

    T-Line: An underground train system

    Robots: Various types for construction, cleaning, and other tasks

    Artificial Intelligence (AI): Used for various purposes

    Augmented Reality (AR) glasses

    Virtual Reality (VR) systems

    Lutin Bots: Advanced robotic assistants (Lutin One and Lutin Two models)

    Robot baby (Taylor): Used for data collection on parenting

    Hooded tunics with cooling and air filtering systems

    Gyro clogs: Some type of self-balancing footwear

    Induction stoves

    Geothermal power plant

    Aquaponic systems

    Central cooling systems

    Local internet

    Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) system

    Gene therapy for addiction treatment

    Builder AI: For planning and constructing flood tunnels

    Bone-mounted AR glasses

    All-sensor night vision technology

    Phage cream: Possibly for protection against pathogens

    Online education services and AI teachers

    VR classrooms and schools

    Digital currency systems

    Advanced medical technology (e.g., growing new skin)

    VR windows for wall mounting

    Many of the characters in this project appear in future episodes.

    Using storytelling to place you in a time period, this series takes you, year by year, into the future. From 2040 to 2195. If you like emerging tech, eco-tech, futurism, perma-culture, apocalyptic survival scenarios, and disruptive science, sit back and enjoy short stories that showcase my research into how the future may play out.

    This is Episode 59 of the podcast "In 20xx Scifi and Futurism." The companion site is https://in20xx.com where you can find a timeline of the future, descriptions of future development, and printed fiction.

    These are works of fiction. Characters and groups are made-up and influenced by current events but not reporting facts about people or groups in the real world.

    Copyright © Leon Horn 2024. All rights reserved.
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    1 hr
  • In 2054 Better Living Through Microbe Engineering

    In 2054 Better Living Through Microbe Engineering
    Sep 18 2024

    A small group of survivors hang on in an underground habitat while the World Storm rages all over Planet Earth. Rocked by a flash flood that fills the habitat with muddy water, the group scramble to take measures to survive. A man nicknamed Mars used to work planning for the Mars Colony One mission so his expertise in keeping the group alive helps out a great deal. The group also have expert gene engineers who have novel solutions for staying alive and comfortable, involving engineering microbes to do a number of things from growing food to cleaning the air.

    Many of the characters in this project appear in future episodes.

    Using storytelling to place you in a time period, this series takes you, year by year, into the future. From 2040 to 2195. If you like emerging tech, eco-tech, futurism, perma-culture, apocalyptic survival scenarios, and disruptive science, sit back and enjoy short stories that showcase my research into how the future may play out.

    This is Episode 58 of the podcast "In 20xx Scifi and Futurism." The companion site is https://in20xx.com where you can find a timeline of the future, descriptions of future development, and printed fiction.

    These are works of fiction. Characters and groups are made-up and influenced by current events but not reporting facts about people or groups in the real world.

    Copyright © Leon Horn 2021. All rights reserved.

    1. A.R. (Augmented Reality) glasses/systems

    2. Respirators with mycelium filters

    3. Med bot (medical robot)

    4. Quantum computer (damaged)

    5. Aquaponics system

    6. Food-brew systems

    7. Lutin Bots (robots, now inoperative)

    8. BritLights (lights that charge using ambient radio waves)

    9. 3D printer (broken)

    10. Gene engineering equipment

    11. Incubation cabinet

    12. Neuplus (some kind of neural enhancement, no longer available)

    13. Whisky distiller (broken)

    14. Car batteries (salvaged for power)

    15. Liquid sunlight machine (for growing plants without sunlight)

    16. Plastic recycler

    17. Cell editor (for bioengineering)

    18. Rail catapult (for launching debris)

    19. Smart particle mat

    20. Hand drills

    21. Microbe eaters (spray to eliminate harmful microbes)

    22. Rock-eating microbes

    23. Stirling engines (not yet built, but planned)

    24. Echo locate technology (for mapping in low visibility)

    25. Shot bolter (for anchoring cables)

    26. Assist (some kind of AI assistant)

    27. Carb-cable and pulley hoist system

    28. Body goo (for cooling in high humidity)
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    47 mins

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