For the first time in many years I started reading a real book – well actually a paperback, and I really can’t remember why I stopped doing it. There is just something different about holding a real physical book in your hands – with paper, ink, paper bookmarks etc. Oh the nostalgia…<\/p>\n
The book I’m reading now is a real sci-fi classic – ‘Ringworld’ by Larry Niven<\/p>\n
Back then (1970) some of the concepts in this book must have been really weird. Instant teleportation, no ‘borders’ between countries, people not aging anymore, extremely strict birth controls, aliens living among humans, personal spacecraft, Hyper-drives etc. Some of these may\/are almost becoming real soon. The ideas behind birth controls is something that ‘we’ at this point of time must be starting to look at. Personal spacecraft is something I for one, would really like. But I guess it will still take a few decades\/centuries before that could happen. In the mean while they must fix the ‘aging problem’. hehe<\/p>\n
Wow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For the first time in many years I started reading a real book – well actually a paperback, and I really can’t remember why I stopped doing it. There is just something different about holding a real physical book in …<\/p>\n