Tags → “cyberpunk”
- 30-Dec-2021On Atemporality
At the “end” of the year, as we are, one can’t help but think about time. Time “passes.” And we can “waste” time. But in a very real sense “time” is not a “thing” in the same way as other nouns. We are bound to our temporal space. We can “remember” prior times but we…
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12-Jul-2017 - 06-Jan-2015Grim Meathook Present by jwz
Since the Pleistocene, 2001, jwz has been using the tag “grim meathook future” on his LiveJournal blog. I’ve always liked that. I don’t remember him really defining the term. In a comment today he sums up, in discussing which PKD film adaptation is worthwhile I think he summed up “grim meathook” pretty well: That said,…
- 02-Mar-2012Quote of the Day: Bruce Sterling, in 1998
How will the digitalization and networking of information affect us and change people’s lives? Bruce Sterling: You’d do better seeking out the very few aspects of people’s lives that will remain unchanged by this. What should we watch out for in an information-rich, techo-Utopia? Bruce Sterling: Surveillance, spies, Mafias, stock market and currency bubbles; stalking,…
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27-Feb-2010 The Sky Above The PortThe sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel. (image via suddenly and crossposted to Nueva Ciudad)
- 23-Feb-2010Jesse Schell: Beyond Facebook
Making the rounds today is a talk by Jesse Schell, of Schell Games who is an instructor at the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University. He also has a blog called Things I Finished. His talk is full of insights that are very vivid. Here is the video of his talk from DICE, and…
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31-Jul-2008 William GibsonIn 1988 I, along with my pal Chris Greazel, saw William Gibson read at a bookstore in La Jolla, above La Jolla Cove. It was intimate, maybe two dozen people in the audience. We had a great time, and it felt like we’d had an audience with the pope. I’m not sure why it was…
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12-Feb-2008 Ah, NostalgiaThis graf from Paul Ford is evocative for me: In the late 1980s there was a prevalent nostalgia for the 1950s that made its way into collage culture. That was my first exposure to irony proper; I watched Leave it to Beaver and bought zines with collages of men with pipes and smiling housewives. An…
- 20-Nov-2007William Gibson, Gravy, and a Video
William Gibson: The Rolling Stone 40th Anniversary Interview : Rolling Stone I find myself less pessimistic than I sometimes imagine I should be. When I started to write science fiction, the intelligent and informed position on humanity’s future was that it wasn’t going to have one at all. We’ve forgotten that a whole lot of…
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29-Oct-2007 Misc, Misc, everywhere… and not a drop to drinkBlurbomat points to the review of MacOS 10.5, “Leopard” on Ars Technica. Anil Dash has no sense of humor about one icon. I wish Windows had included Mac networking by default years ago. Sadly, no. Maybe something based on: I upgraded this blog to WordPress 2.3.1. Bugfixes and an easy transition from 2.3. I’m so…
