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
Quakers in space
As someone who went to a Quaker high school, I am delighted to see a novel about Quakers in space!
“Leaving a dilapidated Earth behind, Quakers across the globe pool funds and resources as they select colonists to send to a newly discovered planet to start life anew in this “miraculous fusion of…science fiction with unsparing realism and keen psychology” (Ursula K. Le Guin).”
Iris van Herpen’s fashion show, Aeriform music
See This Russian Artist’s Dark Vision of How Pollution Is Destroying Our Planet, Now on View in Venice | artnet News
See This Russian Artist’s Dark Vision of How Pollution Is Destroying Our Planet, Now on View in Venice | artnet News “Vasily Klyukin: In Dante Veritas,” presented by the State Russian Museum, is on view in Venice during the Venice Biennale. https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/see-this-russian-artists-dark-vision-of-how-pollution-is-destroying-our-planet-1550710