Whats culture like in the Trinity future?
• As there are different cultures in the present, there are different cultures in the future. The life of an everyday person in Australia (the new entertainment captial of the world) and an everyday person on the Moon are completely different. Some of the more notable features of 2120 culture include: a fascination with Luna and the Qin; low-gee or zero-gee sports; a resurgence in interest in spiritual matters, including “anima,” the principle that spirits inhabit everything; the pervasiveness of computers and satisfactory-intelligence computer agents; holovid (3-D) entertainment; bioware chic; and “bang” music, strident electronic successor to rock ‘n’ roll. (Subsets include ambient/atmospheric Anima bang and Middle Eastern-influenced Muezzin bang.) What’s bioware? Do you have to be a psion to use it? • Bioware is organic technology — tools, machines and vehicles that are grown, not built. Ordinary people can use some bioapps (pieces of bioware — short for “bioware applications”), t
