A false sense of security persists surrounding digitized documents: because an infinite number of identical copies can be made of any original, most of us believe that our electronic files have an indefinite shelf life and unlimited retrieval opportunities. In fact, preserving th … | Continue reading
This observation feels spot-on to me: The shift that I noticed, totally anecdotally, is literary writers are starting to write more dystopian climate futures and science fiction writers are starting to write about climate solutions. adactio.com/links/19528 | Continue reading
In-Vitro Fertilization has gone from science fiction to a reality. Now, new technologies are offering some the genetic engineering tools to more deeply control our reproductive future. But are these reproductive technologies saviors, threats, or something in between? | Continue reading
Not much stays in one place for one long, especially when it comes to digital artifacts. When the Yahoo Groups archive was summarily deleted by parent company Verizon just a few years ago, fandom suffered massive losses, just as it had during the Livejournal purges of the late 02 … | Continue reading
The best climate fiction can do more than spur us to action to save the world we have — it can help us conceptualize the worlds, both beautiful and dire, that may lie ahead. These stories can be maps to the future, tools for understanding the complex systems that intertwine with … | Continue reading
The promise of a technologically advancing future is predicated on millennia of accumulated knowledge. How can we retain that knowledge? | Continue reading
Long Bets URLs still work as intended, but a large portion of the rest of the web runs the risk of falling into a digital dark age. | Continue reading