Very cool column for those who love thinking about alien languages, future languages, and other forms of conlang. Works like “Arrival” and “Embassytown” go straight to the heart of this topic.
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The science-fiction literature that shaped the mind of Jimi Hendrix
Fans Are Better Than Tech at Organizing Information Online
Smart thing to do for huge taxonomies, like those used for tagging sf, fantasy, fanfiction, etc. — “tag wrangling”
Archive of Our Own, the fanfiction database recently nominated for a Hugo, has perfected a system of tagging that the rest of the web could emulate. WIRED
The Climate Crisis Is Mind-Boggling. That’s Why We Need Science Fiction.
The Next Big Privacy Hurdle? Teaching AI to Forget.
Opinion: The inability to forget doesn’t only impact personal privacy—it could also lead to real problems for our global security. WIRED
Live from Atlantic Avenue: It’s sci-fi radio
For nearly 50 years, Jim Freund has hosted a two-hour radio show in the wee hours of Thursday morning. Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Fully Automated Luxury Communism?
Interesting way to imagine…
“Asteroid mining. Gene editing. Synthetic meat. We could provide for the needs of everyone, in style. It just takes some imagination.” NYT
“Zima Blue” short film
While I did NOT like or find 99% of the short films of the Neflix series “Love, Death & Robots” compelling, I did adore one of them: “Zima Blue,” which was based on the short story written by Alastair Reynolds (in a collection of the same name, 2006). Highly recommended read and watch.
Audio short stories
“For some, it’s the end of the world. For others, it’s just the beginning. With brilliant imagination, today’s most visionary writers point to the future in a collection curated by bestselling author Blake Crouch. These stories range from darkly comic to deeply chilling, but they all look forward.” Amazon
Are we living in a Blade Runner world?
“The 1982 sci-fi film imagined a dystopian metropolis in November 2019. But, now we’ve caught up, to what extent did it really predict our present reality, asks David Barnett…” BBC