This is the first in what I plan to be a weekly roundup of technological innovations.

The laser based non-intrusive cancer detection system is an important step forward both from a cancer prevention sense and in its implications for blood analysis in general.

The developers of the super-capacitor claim that it will have 400 times the energy capacity of an equal weight in chemical batteries. If this turns out to be true then we are on the cusp of a dramatic change in the way we transport energy. It may even open the door to electrically powered aircraft.

A 360-Degree holographic display is something that they have been working on so long that one is left wondering if the air-car will get here first.

A terabyte on a CD is enough to make me drool. ‘Nuff said.

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I just finished folding in a set of edits on my novella “The Alchemist of Liberty” and am proceeding with another edit pass that should only take a week or so.

“The Shaper’s Daughter” novelette is almost done and I am doing a few micro-fixes to clarify some issues brought up by a couple of beta-readers while I wait for feedback from few other beta-readers.

The Tactics third draft has languished while I worked on the two extracted short stories noted above. I will be folding them back into the body of Tactics, adding two new scenes and making another (quick?) edit pass to ensure that I’ve addressed all the draft two critiques. I’d like to think I’ll be done by mid-October, but I’ll be more realistic and say that it will be more like mid-December.