Sci-fi//Letter to Manhattan

Imagined futures and possibilities depicted in most films are almost always located in California, as Kim Stanley Robinson explains...

Time Dilation - WFH?

Chen Qiufan’s short story “The Fish of Lijiang” is about a burned-out employee who travels to a holiday town where the experience of time is

The Last Job <on Earth>

Isaac Asimov’s three laws for smart machines from the 1942 short story “Runaround” commands: 1. A robot may not injure a human being or,...

A fitbit in your skull

In the summer of 2016, WhatsApp turned on end-to-end encryption by default for all of their billions of users becoming the world's...

Humanizing Machines or Humanizing Humans

After a super long Webex call (along with its glitches), I ended the day with a refreshing discussion hosted by Neil Leach on using AI in...

FictionFinder: A conversation with Masahito Ono

Masahito Ono (b. 1983, Japan) is an artist who lives and works in New York. Ono creates works that investigate and represent the process...