Or science at least.
Walter Jon Williams brings global finance (automatic online trading programs that turn $20,000 into $20 million in two months, and later single-handedly crash currencies of Indonesia, Chile, China, and US and incite riots on the streets) into his latest books This Is Not a Game, and boy, was that a mistake.
This isn't some fantastical future technology where you can suspect disbelief and say "oh yeah, maybe in 50 years we will invest an anti-gravity generator," this is real life stuff, and it just doesn't work the way he describes.
He's such a good writer, too. This is just a shame.
Walter Jon Williams brings global finance (automatic online trading programs that turn $20,000 into $20 million in two months, and later single-handedly crash currencies of Indonesia, Chile, China, and US and incite riots on the streets) into his latest books This Is Not a Game, and boy, was that a mistake.
This isn't some fantastical future technology where you can suspect disbelief and say "oh yeah, maybe in 50 years we will invest an anti-gravity generator," this is real life stuff, and it just doesn't work the way he describes.
He's such a good writer, too. This is just a shame.
At least, the one course I took in it was a physics course.
How likely are you to get 100% return on $20,000 in 4 days? And to double your money then every four days for the next 2 months?
Science fiction writers need to stick with physics.
- 29/10/2010 04:24:16 AM
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If it helps, they mostly get the physics wrong too. 
*NM*
- 29/10/2010 07:08:23 AM
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*NM*
- 29/10/2010 07:08:23 AM
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Well technically, quant trading is a branch of physics. 
- 29/10/2010 07:52:26 AM
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- 29/10/2010 07:52:26 AM
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tell me this.
- 29/10/2010 02:06:03 PM
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