Micro Mechano Fractal Construction

By 2040, a process for building actual self similar rough, fragmented geometric shapes at a micro level may have become possible. These simple and recursively defined objects will appear similar at all levels of magnification, and could have useful applications across many branches of science. It’s just that we don’t know, yet, how valuable this development will be to future generations. Van Credenza appears to have an idea.................

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Human Memory Download

Some time in the near future, scientists will be able to take reminiscences from a human brain and store them digitally, for others to experience. This is likely to be a long and painful process for the memory supplier, yet it may have logical benefits for that person.

Sufferers of Alzheimer's disease could have their brain reseeded, or the patient which has undergone trauma resulting in loss of memory could be given a jolt from their past. Dementia is the loss of cognitive functioning—thinking, remembering, and reasoning—to such an extent that it interferes with a person’s daily life and activities: yet these persons too could be helped by taking part in human memory download in advance of the onset of such an illness.

This piece reflects an important medical development: it is also a long and painful process.

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Global Voting

(Van Credenza continues to look into the future)

A small unit recognising your palm print, located within your home....placed there by operatives from the world government. You can freely vote on every important issue which arises by pressing the correct button, as it happens! Remember to press the correct button.

This is the sound it makes.................................

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Prison Countries

Prison Countries

In the first of a new series of extrapolative technological work, Van Credenza looks to the future and predicts scientific changes which may or may not benefit the world’s population.

Mesopotamia

Bactria

Nyasaland

Grain Coast

Dahomey

Prussia

Bourbon Island

Silesia

Abyssinia

Upper Volta

Transylvania

Galilee

Zanzibar

Soviet Union

Formosa

Moluccas

Siam

Katanga

Friendly Islands

New Spain

Bohemia

All of the above were at one time 'Prison Countries'. They changed names to avoid the stigma and shame such a legacy would convey. But, what if, in the future........?

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Rebel Rebel

Davy Jones tells us why he wrote 'Rebel Rebel':

"Bryce Willis, father of one of our friends and associates, was a documentarian to the Royal Family over 50 years ago. Peculiarly, and despite his name, he was also an Austro-Hungarian, who harboured a grudge against royalty due to his own family being slighted as a commoner group. Willis was part of the Chotek family, and Sophie Chotek, although married to Franz Ferdinand, was not allowed to share her husband's rank, title, or privileges; as such, she would not normally appear in public beside him. She was supposedly not allowed to ride in the royal carriage or sit in the royal box.

No names, no pack drill.

Willis always had an interest in cinematography, and eventually made his career in documentary film making. His speciality was as a royal watcher.....but there was a more sinister background to this rebellious character. He believed, much in the same way that pylons and mobile telephones are perceived by some to be detrimental to health, that monochromatic film rays pointing towards his subjects over prolonged periods brought about bouts of madness. Experimenting with various filters, Willis attempted to intensify the effects of the emissions. What he was attempting was as close to treason as cinematically possible, yet no-one suspected Bryce Willis.

This is a story that can never be told.

Willis, now an octogenarian, lives in self imposed exile in Belgium, where he can often be seen in Liege parks feeding the ducks, to stray cats."