Mesh Protocol
A Distributed System After Collapse A laboratory narrative exploring resilience, mesh networking, and emergent infrastructure in a post-collapse world. Part I — Fragmented Surface Earth would still appear intact from orbit.Four months had passed since the last global broadcast. It was 2073. What remained operational were only local fragments,...
Outposts & Horizons — Ambient Sci-Fi Album
A contemplative ambient sci-fi listening experience Over the past months I’ve been working on a slow, contemplative ambient sci-fi album focused on texture, space and a strong sense of place. Outposts & Horizons explores distant outposts, abandoned infrastructure and vast alien horizons, unfolding as a continuous listening experience rather...
10 Segundos de Meditação para um Robô Minerador no Cinturão de Asteróides
Se passou um século de pesquisa, até que a sonda Dawn da Nasa fotografou em detalhes a superfície de Ceres, o maior corpo do cinturão de asteroides. Chegava-se agora, a primeira missão de mineração de água no asteroide. Guardada em forma de gelo, em bolsões abaixo da superfície, algumas...
NÓS e eles
Belma Polat tinha uma missão importante na empresa de mídia que trabalhava. Na verdade, um grande conglomerado com empresa de TV, rádio online, portais, etc. Ela ficou incumbida de entender o ódio que estava fervilhando na Turquia. Como estavam atravessando um momento de eleições políticas, a sensação de que...
Resíduos Nucleares no Verão de Vênus
Tony Washburn estava em sua grande missão interplanetária. Não queria confessar, mas não era seu grande sonho. Viu seus colegas serem encarregados de grandes projetos, alguns para verdadeiras missões pioneiras e que lhes dariam fama, mas a ele somente sobrou levar lixo para Vênus. Projeto da Academia Espacial de...
Lua de Mel na Gold Coast e um Drone Bisbilhoteiro
Matt e Linda iam começar uma nova lua-de-mel. Após o casamento da filha caçula, todos os filhos estavam bem criados. Bem, casados ou não, tinham empregos excelentes nas metrópoles, e o casal preferiu se mudar para a Gold Coast, no litoral leste da Australia. Fizeram uma festa da confirmação...
TUUL – A fictional story in the Future about IoT, Smart Cities and Big Data.
TUUL – Transformation Unit for Uninhabitable Lands Trishna Drala watched from her armchair the movement of the “Tuuls” Units. Actually, the drive pattern of the units had changed. Almost 30 years ago, when the first Tuul had been “liberated”, everything happened in a coordinated way and without surprises, a...
The Last Wall – A Short-Fiction Story on Mobility
Many listened to the UN Secretary General’s speech apprehensive. It has long been feared that groups linked the block of nations called Coalition would trigger a Web liberation movement which could cause drastic consequences. The Secretary took a breath for a couple of seconds. Then, she continued, and chose...
Hidden Dream in The Cloud
Since Chiron Aristóphanes ran his program at Amibor Corporation three days ago, he was feeling really nervous. Even as an authorized and expert employee, he knew that his program could be found anytime, and certainly he would be fired because of that. It was the year of 2024. Chiron...
The Snoopy Drone and Honeymoon on the Gold Coast
Matt and Linda were going to start a new honeymoon. After the marriage of the youngest daughter, all the children were well-bred. Well, married or not, they had excellent jobs in the metropolis, and the couple chose to move to the Gold Coast, on the east coast of Australia....