TASAT - There's A Story About That!
Christopher Nolan Reportedly Interested In Purchasing 'Halo' TV Series Rights
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Nukes, political violence, and environmental exploitation: The enduring relevance of Dune
(Modeling people takes more than emotional inventory since they likely took a lot of rehearsal or training, over multiple nervous systems, to get where they are. Can AI get charisma down? With or without appeal to empathy? What will that mean for elections? BCI?)
Blade Runner 2049 Ending, Explained
(Deckard & K may still have been tracked by Wallace himself, perhaps using those drone sensors to interface a satellite. They would have revealed the location of the miracle anyway leading to an all-out confrontation between the various groups. The tragic stake is that no one solves their mysteries after all. Unless there was a backup before the Blackout. Or they could somehow convert the Nexus afterward using another revelation. Recall the Engineers in Ridley Scott's Prometheus. Or a hidden memory. The audience may expect Stelline to have transmitted something in her craft. That may or may not require natural people as a humanist dependency. Which would irk purists. Then again, Sebastian may not have been the least promiscuous.)
Anders Sandberg on X
We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus - Charlie's Diary
The Expanse's James S.A. Corey Announces a New Sci-Fi Trilogy
Worker As Futurist + The Workers' Speculative Society
AI and Human Destiny... Plus a little about UFOs and Transparency...
Cory Doctorow & Charles Stross: Defining the Future, Technology and Science Fiction
𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐧 🛰 on Twitter
Two Truths and a Lie
How will humanity endure the climate crisis? I asked an acclaimed sci-fi writer | Daniel Aldana Cohen
Blade Runner tabletop RPG on the way from the team behind Alien, Tales from the Loop
Crib Sheet: Dead Lies Dreaming - Charlie's Diary