Jetbike! African cyberpunk! Robot economists!

Get on your bad motor scooter and ride!
As I said a few months ago, I think Africa should be the setting for cyberpunk fiction. It’s burgeoning urban sprawl has all the right feel.
Not a year seems to pass these days without some startup trying to send broadband through the same wires that deliver power. This has become something of a holy grail because it would, in theory, eliminate the last mile problem in most post-industrial countries.
Three-dimensional imaging technology continues to advance but, the subject of this article is still not as neat as real holovision.
With speech recognition and pattern matching voice mail may soon be as easy to organizes as e-mail.
The hunt for a profitable business model continues on the Internet. Is this The End of Free?
More nanoscale elements are finding their way into conventional chips, this is not nanotechnology but it could, by association, help drive it.
President Shrub may be an idiot for letting US automakers slack off on fuel cell development but in the end it won’t matter.
In Evitable Conflict Issac Asimov wrote a story about robots that analysed, planned and guided our economy. I wrote another entry about this subject nearly a year ago. This has actually been going on since the nineteenth century when the ancestors of computers, calculation machines, were applied to census data and bookkeeping data. IBM was built on this.