Reflections on Technology, Media & Culture

Scase waited patiently at the large glass table of the boardroom. It flickered as it announced the arrival of the director of CogLab admin, Quanto, whose security clearance confirmed him as human. He took his place next to Scase just as the table showed the image of Jaco, a droid charged with representing the interests of droids, all one hundred billion at last count. Mila, s...

Something moved below.

Another emot was rising through the tower frame. It struggled against the wind, correcting its position in short bursts. Scase leaned towards the glass. It could be from the club. Perhaps the first emot had transmitted its message before destroying itself.

He turned the dial that opened the maintenance hatch. The small receiving...

“If you put two opposites together, they cancel each other out. Good cancels bad. True plus false cancels reason. Wisdom plus ignorance gives silence.” A droid said that.

The next entries in my reviews of 2014 were #226 The big book of hermeneutics...

I’m revisiting the sequence of entries from 2014 and weaving their themes into a bit of science fiction. I’m now up to #222 After dark, #223 Even more rad...

I began an entry on 1 November 2014 about melancholy with a short sci-fi parable. I called the post #220 Good morning melancholia. I’ve reproduced it italicised at the end of this post, but I’ll precede it with a plausible back story. ChatGPT helped as criti...