Writing a culture without writing? How do they hold onto their cultural knowledge and transmit it from one generation to the next?
Originally shared by Jennifer Ouellette
This ancient mnemonic technique builds a palace of memory https://aeon.co/ideas/this-ancient-mnemonic-technique-builds-a-palace-of-memory
https://aeon.co/ideas/this-ancient-mnemonic-technique-builds-a-palace-of-memory
The Man Who Was Thursday was one of the inspirations for my City of Masks. Like most of Chesterton’s stuff, it’s odd, but oddly compelling.
This is a good review, from someone who isn’t afraid of a complex sentence.
Originally shared by Kate Sherrod
G.K. Chesterton’s THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY
Mention Gilbert Keith Chesterton to most people nowadays, and they’ll probably know him as the author of the Father Brown mysteries and not much else (unless you’re mentioning him to Roman Catholics, who might know him for a lot of excellent apologetics for…
http://kateofmind.blogspot.com/2017/09/gk-chestertons-man-who-was-thursday.html
Here’s a thing.
A thing I plan to participate in. It accepts reprint stories formerly published in professional venues, and runs a “pay what you think it’s worth” setup, with the bulk of the revenues going to the author.
If you like short fiction, take a look.
Interesting bit in this piece: the EU is working on legislation to enable citizens to demand an explanation of an algorithmic decision made about them.
Someone’s been reading their Kafka, and taking the lessons to heart.
Originally shared by Singularity Hub
Machines Are Getting Smarter—Now They Should Explain Themselves http://suhub.co/2jJnEUP
If “female superheroes have adventure and romance in the Napoleonic-era British military” is a premise that appeals to you as much as it does to me, this is a series you should check out.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2127142428?book_show_action=false&from_review_page=1
Story fodder. What about when illness changes your appearance? What about camouflage makeup to fool the systems? What about twins?
Originally shared by Singularity Hub
I Saw Her Face, Now I’m a Believer—Facial Recognition Tech Goes Mainstream http://suhub.co/2x6hoeX
My takeaway from this: I don’t even need to justify how smart devices embedded in or attached to my characters’ bodies are communicating data.
Not that I was planning to attempt to justify that. I’ve been assuming that problem will be solved somehow or other for years.
Originally shared by C. A. Wilke
Low-power device breaks barrier for sending data from afar – Futurity
Holy crap this is kind of amazing. I’m imagining the possibilities for cybernetic implants that can provide data about the body and maybe even feed you data. They made a prototype contact lens, but if this backscatter setup was used both ways, Google Glass and other augmented reality devices could be as unobtrusive as a pair of invisible contact lenses.
A good interview from a writer with a clear voice.
Originally shared by Self-Rescuing Princess Society
“Most of the science fiction that I read growing up was filled with white men doing white men things—not to say that that’s bad or anything—but it just didn’t attract me. I started writing science fiction because on my trips to Nigeria I would notice technology being used in ways that I thought were unique and specific. When I saw this, I noticed that this is not how this part of the world was being portrayed in literature. So, that kind of made me want to just do it myself. I started writing it, because I wanted to see it. I wanted to read it.”
Have you read any of her work? What did you think? I haven’t, yet, but it’s in the TBR pile.
Short story contest with the theme of Universal Basic Income, which is something I’m interested in.
The prize is $12,000, paid out over a year, which is really a case of putting your money where your mouth is.
https://thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com/Market.aspx?mid=6120#
My wife’s niece refuses to talk to her fiance’s smart house. She thinks talking to a house is weird.
She may have to get used to it.
Originally shared by Singularity Hub
How the Intelligent Home of the Future Will Care For You http://suhub.co/2eX0U1F