Category Archives for Speculative Fiction
Dystopian and speculative fiction written by Shlok Vaidya.
Fiction: Basis Science
Basis Science – Basis tracks your heart rate, your movement, skin temperature and the ambient temperature, and your galvanic skin response (GSR, or how much you’re sweating). The sweat tells you how strenuous your activity is and how stressed out … Continue reading
Fiction: Uber
Uber: Users of startup car service Uber got quite a shock from the company’s demand-based pricing on New Year’s Eve. The company implemented a New Year’s surcharge that stuck San Francisco-based Uber user Dan Darcy with a $63 bill for … Continue reading
Fiction: PlaceIQ
PlaceIQ. PlaceIQ sifts through tons of data about locations to give marketers a mini-zipcode-like profile of each block. The data comes from both open sources and commercial data sets, including place data, retail data, government data, event data, photo data, … Continue reading
Fiction: Favo.rs
Favo.rs “The site can be likened to a marketplace for networking, where users barter for professional favors in exchange for status, points and the satisfaction of knowing that they’ve helped someone out.” — The original Favo.rs business model worked for … Continue reading
Fiction: Hard Drive
I break for the door. Grit my teeth and shoulder it open. It slams. Silence interrupts the carnage. Our lives have been spent pursuing her through server jungles deep within urban carcasses. This is the last. Missiles are inbound, so I work … Continue reading