Shitty internet is everythingLet’s pretend we’re all living in 1st-world countries, hunger and cancer have been solved, world peace is a given, and everyone on the planet has fiber. Are you still with me? Cool.
The Metamorphosis of Dystopian FictionAnimal Farm, 1984, Brave New World, Harrison BergeronA lot of dystopian science fiction began as social commentary. Sometimes thickly, sometimes thinly veiled. Against problems real and imagined, exaggerated and downplayed. These types…
Memory, tradition and myths“Science and technology revolutionise our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response “ — Arthur…
Malaysia is an inbuilt YA dystopiaThis was posted on my Tumblr last year, but a recent post reminded me of it so I’m sharing it hereSo I’ve been either reading or reading about YA dystopia, and lately there seems to be a common thread:
Martin Robinson @Trivium21c on technology“Pupils write and research with screens, their eyes flit between one link and another…
Software just ate software developmentAs software developers, we’ve been watching software eat the world with varying emotions. We’re proud to be laying the foundations for something entirely unprecedented even though none of us can say with any certainty what it is. Robots are on the production…
transmission #021It was a trap. The duke’s men gave no quarter. Surrounded us, killed two, then lined us up. Asked the last man where the rest…
transmission #022Jule and Isam, the two that escaped with me, are still under shock. Seeing their friends executed in cold blood was a harsh…