Posted 8:55 AM by Marco

Very quiet Sunday afternoon.
Instead of cleaning my apartment (partly because I expected maintenance to work on my dishwasher which is not draining), I went to the Philadelphia Free Library, and stumbled across two interesting books.
I am generally lucky there; the library seems to display interesting books in a way that makes it easy to stumble across them.
First, Meditations on Middle-Earth, a collection of essays written by Sci-Fi writers as an homage to J.R.R. Tolkien.
Skimmed through it, and then barely started The Spike, which assumes knowledge and technology grow at a compound (exponential) rate, and then reflects on some implications.
I am a bit sceptical, but it is interesting reading.
Then today, I wonder if maybe the nano technology described in The Spike is closer than I might think:
Molecular Trojan Horse Zaps Cancer Cells