It has been a while since I got the sort of email that PZ Myers gets, though I’m sure it will happen again one day. Today’s unexpected email was much more interesting. It was from Nokia. And it wasn’t about Finland.

What happened was that somebody noticed my recent post on Chris Anderson’s “economics of free” ideas. It so happens that Anderson is one of a group of innovative thinkers featured on Nokia’s Ideas Project web site. Another featured futurologist is Vernor Vinge. And by now you should be getting an idea of what Ideas Project is all about.

The site has sections with titles like “Personal Genomics”, “Orbital Launch Vehicles” and “Smart Dust”. In other words, it is full of topics that science fiction fans love to think about, and science fiction writers ought to be thinking about. Take that as a recommendation.

Oh, and they understand Web 2.0, so feedback is requested.