17th July 2023
There you are relaxing in the velvet cushions of your coffin when there’s a knock on the lid. Who? Never heard of you. What? A Lawyer? Damn, one of your dying thoughts was, Thank god, no more taxes, bureaucracy, call waiting, bullshit errands, spam, robocalls, doorstep mendicants and proselytizers. No more shrill demands for your […]
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3rd June 2023
Computer games have come a long way. Zoltang’s sitting before his wallscreen—a screen so large it doubles as a wall—playing Terra World, a hyper-advanced form of world-building light years ahead of Sim City. He’s on his fifth shot at creating a stable civilization. Talk about touchy. Unless he gets the balance between key variables exactly […]
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5th April 2023
I hesitate to inflict upon the world yet another opinion piece on the threats and benefits of AI. Having played around with ChatGPT and done some research on it I will say at the start that I’m convinced it’s the next big thing—and probably the next big threat. That’s why they call this kind of […]
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7th March 2023
Internet rumor has it that the Wagner Group (cue Ride of the Valkyries) the Russian mercenaries-for-hire paramilitary organization whose tag line is “join Vagner, travel vorruld, meet interestink people, keel dem” is planning a hostile takeover of the longstanding British PLC Rentokil which is itself looking at a friendly takeover of the US corporation Terminex. […]
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30th January 2023
Writing as Performance Art might be counterintuitive but how about painting while drunk? Last year London’s Royal Academy featured a major exhibition of the 19th century Japanese artist Kyōsai. And when it comes to showing artists you’ve never heard of the RA sure did pick a dilly. Imagine an anime version of Bosch’s Garden of […]
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17th October 2022
There I am purring down the freeway, in a reasonable mood for once, when my car suddenly takes over, carefully merges right, slows, keeps a safe distance from the slowing car in front of me as we both pull over onto the shoulder. It’s like being double-stopped for speeding by an invisible show-off cop. I […]
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