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Post by pluma » Mon, Nov 16, 2015, 6:52 PM UTC

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To a tiny universe of Reddit/XKCD readers perhaps. In the rest of the world, for example at the offices of Con Edison, or in the city of Edison, New Jersey, he's still considered to be somewhat important.

Don't forget The Oatmeal readers! [0] There's a billion and one things one could mention about Tesla. Sadly, only the tiny universe of people who dislike Edison (and see him as a businessman, not an inventor) are aware of Tesla's contributions. [0] http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla

In a way, Edison is a very American inventor. His skill wasn't in craft or science, his skill was in sales and turning a profit.

Post by Scarblac » Tue, Nov 17, 2015, 8:06 PM UTC

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In Greg Egan's Permutation City, they have interactive 3D video email, and interactive 3D video spam, and interactive 3D video spam filters. The spam tries to act like a perfectly normal message as long as it is talking to the spam filter, and as soon as it thinks it is talking to a real person, it shows its spam message. The spam filter tries to impersonate the recipient as best as it can (in 3D video), meanwhile tr…

I just finished this book. I loved it. Any other recommendations for books like this? I read Accelerando, and am reading Chasm City now (both highly recommended).

I loved _Diaspora_ as well. And the rest of his books, but those two stand out.

I don't know anybody like Egan, he takes the science part to such extremes... My favourite SF author is Iain M Banks, but you're probably already familiar with him.

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