(11)HEAR ‘ORBITAL’.[Item by SF Concatenation’s Jonathan Cowie.] Orbital, Samantha Harvey’s Booker Prize winning novel, has been serialized on BBC Radio 4 as book of the week. No, according to her, it is not ‘science fiction’ but ‘space realism’. Nonetheless, it is cracking hard...
There’s another in the radio. The engine has 20 or so computers. These are all networked, and increasingly autonomous. Now, let’s start listing the security threats. We don’t want car navigation systems to be used for mass surveillance, or the microphone for mass eavesdropping. We might...