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Bookmark AI is the Scariest Beast Ever Created, Says Sci-Fi Writer Bruce Sterling
I've seen a lot of computer crazes in my day, but this one is sheer Mardi Gras. It's not proper to get stern and judgmental when the people are costumed and…

July 10 2023, 2:52am | Comments
Bookmark Video Games Are Better Without Stories - The Atlantic
Film, television, and literature all tell them better. So why are games still obsessed with narrative? A longstanding dream: Video games will evolve into interactive stories, like the ones that play…

April 25 2017, 8:01am | Comments
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Borges: The Task of Art

March 19 2012, 4:25pm | Comments
Bookmark The meaning of monsters, magic and miracles
Monsters demonstrate, monsters alert us: whether or not the etymologies relating the word to both “monstro” (I show) and “moneo” (I warn), are correct, monsters act as a moral compass. The…

February 9 2012, 10:33am | Comments
Bookmark VideoGames can't tell stories
Games don’t do storytelling well because they can’t deliver the four key components of story. There is no hero. Time is in the control of the player, not the creator. There…

November 24 2011, 2:53am | Comments
Bookmark Who Goes There by John W. Campbell
Who Goes There? is a science fiction novella by John W. Campbell, Jr. under the pen name Don A. Stuart, published August 1938 in Astounding Stories. In 1973, the story was…

July 16 2010, 3:46am | Comments
Bookmark Borges on Pleasure Island
Little is quite as dull as literary worship; this essay on Borges is thus happily doomed. One finds oneself tempted toward learned-sounding inadequacies like: His work combines the elegance of mathematical…

July 1 2010, 2:17am | Comments
Bookmark Separate Truths
It is misleading — and dangerous — to think that religions are different paths to the same wisdom. At least since the first petals of the counterculture bloomed across Europe and…

April 27 2010, 7:55am | Comments
Bookmark Spooky Signals from the Future Telling Us to Cancel the LHC!
A recent essay in the New York Times by Dennis Overbye has managed to attract quite a bit of attention around the internets — most of it not very positive. It…

October 15 2009, 8:13am | Comments
Bookmark 'On the Origin of Stories,' 'Finding Our Tongues,' 'Catching Fire' take path-breaking…
A few years ago Tufts philosopher Daniel Dennett opined that the idea of natural selection - proposed 150 years ago in Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" - was "the…

June 3 2009, 12:01pm | Comments

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