Author Archives: Henry Lu

Humans develop new technologies because we want to improve our lives. People develop thinking machines because we have too much to think. Thinking machines are at all different levels of thinking. Some machines just repeat a task infinitely while some machines do a task with different way each time. Many workers are replaced by thoseContinue reading “Thinking Machines”

COVID-19 has pretty much changed everyone’s lifestyle. Just like we are now learning online instead of on campus. This year, Halloween is on the weekend, without COVID-19, that should be a lot of fun. But this year, not that many people went out for trick-or-treating. Our kids just played in front of our house withContinue reading “Halloween during COVID-19”

Machines that think, can learn from their experiences, can make their own decisions. However, humans still responsible for what these machines had done. I have a car that can semi-autonomous, it can keep itself in lane, keeps preset distance from car in front, and some other functions. All these functions help me a lot whileContinue reading “Machines That Think”

Having a house is not that simple, I must keep it clean, at the same time I have work to do, I can only clean my house at the weekend. And this weekend, we have one more task to finish, the whole family is going to pumpkin patch. That was a busy weekend, I mustContinue reading “Pumpkin Patch”

I may be very ordinary, but my life is already very good. I have a house to live, even it’s not huge, but at least I have a place to stay; I have car to drive, even it’s not a luxury one, but at least I can go places; I have money to spend, evenContinue reading “Life is Good”

We are unable to secure our immortality physically, but our digital identity is everywhere on the internet. No matter you like it or not, people will able to search you out from the internet, now and the future. Most people like to share their feeling of present moment on the internet, therefor, most of usContinue reading “The Power of Cyberspace”

Most people were blissfully unaware of the potential of networked computing. For 1984, Gibson’s book was ambitiously prophetic, leapfrogging beyond any notion of a text and image-based World Wide Web and directly into a computerized virtual reality into which hackers could jack themselves using body implants and cables, injecting their brains directly into “the Matrix.”

I am a software developer, but I would like to write lots of short stories if I am as a writer. Understanding of the plot will help me to develop more story idea to write. The more I write, the better writing skill I have, back to as a software developer, I will be ableContinue reading “Developer as a writer”

Science fiction somehow manages to place human character in a situation where science and morality are intertwined. Science fiction must have certain intellectual and human elements to succeed. The novel seems to be in stark contrast to proponents of technological progress, as it presents a colorful but frustrating and desolate future. “Molly was gone whenContinue reading “Analysis Exercise 2: Topic Paragraph”

As I read the novel, I found that it seems dated. William Gibson mentioned that the stand pocket computer has three megabytes of hot RAM. When I got my first computer in 1998, there as 16 megabytes of RAM. William Gibson’s novel Neuromancer has most idea of the future, some already existed as today, someContinue reading “Neuromancer seems dated”