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but then I saw her case …
… and now I’m a believer It may have started a lot earlier, but the immediately preceding events, which led up to the present condition, started with ↵that keyboard. My enthusiasm never broke, and then TK reminded me, that, … Continue reading →
21st century man
‘It is like you to be more concerned for a machine than for a man.” He [eminent professor of sociology Simon Ninheimer] looked at her with savage contempt. It left her [US Robots’ Chief Robopsychologist Dr. ↑Susan … Continue reading →
robots and suicide bombing
a bizarre relationship in a decidedly cyberpunked world On Monday, 4 February 2008 in a shopping mall in Dimona, southern Israel, a “woman has been killed in a suicide bombing […], the first such attack by Palestinian militants in over … Continue reading →
the cyberpunk educator
Andrew J. Holden’s “↑The Cyberpunk Educator“ is “a documentary study of mainstream ‘cyberpunk’ films of the 1980’s- with a heavy focus on their literary, political, and cultural content. The film uses the structure of literary theorist Northrop Frye, and … Continue reading →
sterling before and after westphalia
↑Bruce Sterling currently is jotting down ↑notes for a projected science fiction novel—maybe we again can, ↵like ↵before, witness a novel by a cyberpunk legend grow online. As a first Sterling published a list of political entities, plus according … Continue reading →
nine per cent
Dear ↑Mr. President, Come take a walk with me … ;-) ‘Tis a strange realm, cyberspace. Since a couple of years here at ↑Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), the institution where I am working—or am pretending to do so, there is a … Continue reading →
bounded vision
WENDLANDT, SEBASTIAN. 2007. “The bounded vision,” in ↓Proceedings of Scandinavian Student Interaction Design Research Conference 2007 [.pdf | 7.21MB] edited by Sara Eriksén, Bo Westerlund, and Johan Beronius, pp. 103-108. Karlskrona: Akademi sydost. abstract: A vision is an indispensable precondition … Continue reading →
esports conference
The fifth annual „↑International eSports Conference” is the most important conference for the eSport and gaming community worldwide. It consists of three main elements: Conference, Exhibition and Networking. Lectures, discussions and workshops will present the most important issues and innovative … Continue reading →
nazgûl of armonk
I was startled to hear the thundering of hooves. Having lived near Armonk, NY all my life, I had never heard such a sound before. “What is that horrible sound?” “That is the sound of the … Continue reading →