Watching
Mages and Murderdads - Planescape Torment
A fun show, pointing out as they begin Planescape Torment how much it and its setting owe to the work of Gene Wolfe, specifically The Book of The New Sun, but I think Latro in the Mist would be another apt touchstone.
Reading
Predictions Scorecard, 2023 January 01
Rodney Brooks continues to bring sobering facts to much-hyped discussion.
The Dangers of Over-Engineering
Thinking a lot about simplification and connecting engineering priorities and business priorities.
- Wintermute, Neuromancer and Manipulation
- Best Futurists Ever: How William Gibson’s Neuromancer Shaped Our Vision of Technology
- Neuromancer - The Birth of Cyberpunk
A mess of reading about Neuromancer.
A fantastic short story, need to move Dubliners up my to read pile.
Daley Foley of Kids in The Hall and The Wrong Guy inspired Aimee Mann’s Save Me, wonderful.
Interesting perspective on Twitter.
Other
My paper on contexts, and how people think about contextual factors1 was referenced in a recent paper,2 I look forward to reading their work.
Eoin Hurrell and Alan F Smeaton, “Context Ontologies for Recommending from the Social Web,” in Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Context-Awareness in Retrieval and Recommendation, 2013, 26–32. ↩︎
Clara Palomar-Garcia, Ariadna Fernández-Planells, and Carles Sora-Domenjó, “Uses and Abuses of User-Centered Design: Literature Review and Proposal of a Tool for Evaluating Ethics in the Design of Mobile Applications,” Digital Creativity, 2023, 1–16. ↩︎