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This is where I will be posting public content from my professional life as well as aspects of my personal life and hobbies. After 30 years of developing products and software systems for the Internet, I am finally starting to put a bit more public information on the Internet. As with nearly everything else on the Internet, this is very much a work in progress.
tl;dr: A dark sci-fi comedy that should appeal to a younger generation of sci-fi enthusiasts...
As a huge Blade Runner fan (it’s still my favorite movie) I enjoyed Mickey 17, which takes more than a little inspiration from that sci-fi classic movie. Mickey 17 also takes place in the not-too-distant future, in which earthly civilization has devolved into a not-too-appealing environment for most people. Living on another planet is thought by many to be the answer. Unlike Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049, which remain entirely earthbound, Mickey 17 follows the journey of a spaceship of settlers headed to establish human life on a distant planet. Near lightspeed space travel and 3-D printing technology which can manufacture new versions of humans are the two main technologies that make the events portrayed in Mickey 17 possible...
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