(Originally published in 2011; see endnotes below.) It was 1999. The Sega Dreamcast was brand new, Tori Murden was crossing the Atlantic, and I was about to have a terrible revelation. Napster had launched in June of that year, and would last 22 months before being shut down by a
Originally published by Clarkesworld in January 2013. “And jealous now of me, you gods, because I befriend a man, one I saved as he straddled the keel alone, when Zeus had blasted and shattered his swift ship with a bright lightning bolt, out on the wine-dark sea.” —Homer, The Odyssey,
Surprising no one (I hope), this blog has been rather quiet. I committed the classic blunder – not the one about contesting a Sicilian, fortunately – of over-scoping. So I have roughly three thousand words written in response to this rather remarkable video from Yahtzee Croshaw and the Second Wind folk – and
My job has put me in the position of explaining creativity to technologists for a long time now. This function became about a thousand times more fraught as AI-generated images transitioned from “nightmare fuel” to what we see today. Wanting a chance to think about this with people I respected
I’ve been away awhile. I made a brief attempt in fall of 2022 to return to blogging, and did finally set up my new personal site (3sxp.com). But – some things happened. In brief: * I had two young children, and family life consumed every scrap of attention I could