Sofia-B

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This beast is one of the few surviving Sofia-B cars. An engineer wanted to build a home-made sports car, followed his dream, and made it, although the car was eventually produced after the communism was over. I’m not sure what kind of enthusiasm is needed to want to build that thing in the latest years of the communism, when we had shortages of anything imaginable.

Spotted in The Mall, Sofia

What will your life be like in three years?

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Daily writing prompt
What will your life be like in three years?
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I believe we can plan the future and forecast the impact of our changes without committing to a prognosis how the future will look like. Any negative prediction would be fortune telling, and any positive prediction would be wishful thinking.

So, given that I don’t want to predict my own future, here’s some educated guesses about the future.

  • Everyone will be pretty pissed by how much AI we added everywhere but the AI bubble would still be inflating. There will be AI washing machines, AI refrigerators, and AI toilets in Japan, and they’ll not work better than the regular ones
  • Most Silent/Boomer political leaders who dominate the current scene will be out or on a painful way out and no longer taken seriously
  • Electric cars will become more mainstream

October in Books

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First time this year, a monthly recap post with only 5 books. 4 were good, and 1 was okay.

Best

  • Kings of the Wyld by a wild margin. The book felt like a mix between LOTR and Ready Player One but with a much broader variety of creatures, like Centaurs, Kobolds, undead, humans with wings and so on.
  • Top Secret Twenty-One – a bubblegum. Stephanie Plum catches some scary people.
  • Bookshops & Bonedust – Travis Baldree scored another win, kind of related to Kings of the Wyld by the type of intelligent creatures who participate
  • Son of a Liche – the continuation of Orconomics felt much more interesting and balanced than the first part but it still feels too long

Worst

  • Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edogawa Rampo. The book is not bad but it felt slow.