‘Above all, we cannot afford not to live in the present.... Unless our philosophy hears the cock crow in every barn-yard within our horizon, it is belated. That sound commonly reminds us that we are growing rusty and antique in our employments and habits of thought. His philosophy comes down…
Category: Literature
What’s Next?
(a solstice pause) Where does this road go? It’s a new page, a new moment, a new now. And then…? This is the edge of the known world, when it is still flat. Then, where does this road go? Around in a circle, or straight beyond, forever? I propose a spiral…
The Virtual Reality Trap
In the early 1990s I delved into the new cyberpunk genre and drafted a novel (PsyBot) marrying the emerging concepts of virtual reality (hardware and software) and computer viruses. In this slipstream fable, the virus, a rogue mind-control program, infects a human programmer (Joe Norton) through a covert brain-machine interface.…
What’s New?
What’s New? What is new todayis just old news tomorrow.What would happen if we skipped a day? What?You can fill in your own blanksif you dare. What’s new? 1. Stuck in the Roots Reflecting on a recent drumming performance I was part of, I realized that I’d missed an opportunity.…