miraclej0nes

In your opinion, was Glass specifically a bad idea or is AR/VR generally doomed to failure for more structural / societal reasons? Can you imagine a version of Glass that would have been actually successful or is this something we think we want because of cyberpunk chic but in actuality is just annoying and embarrassing?

In fact, if you combine "hitchhiking with murderer," "burrowing machine," "monster truck," "motorized toilet," and "shopping cart" all into one vehicle, you have a full description of the subway itself, my favorite form of transportation. I suppose I have done my ranking unconsciously in order of "aspects of the subway I like the most."

You talking about INSTAR BOOKS? HAW HAW HAW!

The name refers to the various stages that an insect goes through as metamorphosis. A developmental stage for any and all arthropods, really. We feel that this is representative of the way literature itself works: a clicking shambling monstrosity that grows ever more powerful with time, and thrives in darkness on waste and filth.

Then there was uh also the uh time I sold my short story collections "Seed" and "Soil" inside a matching pair of neon USB genitals to see if this idea was uh viable:

http://fictioncircus.com/news.php?id=593&mode=one

It was! I sold out of everything I made and people were pretty happy about buying them.

Incredible! In that case:

1. Hitchhiking with murderer
2. Burrowing machine (a distant second)
3. Monster truck (this beats motorized toilet I suppose)
4. Motorized toilet (I feel like this would lead to many conversations I would rather not have)
5. Shopping cart (there are at least some practical applications here)
6. Hang glider (seems utterly useless for both short trips and interstate transit)
7. Giraffe (might as well walk; also I would feel bad for the giraffe)