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Up In The Air 2 Jan 2011 | 06:07 am
Unusually for me, commonly gaming or poking at the internet, 2010 was a year in which I watched a large number of films. The last of these was 2009′s Jason Reitman-directed Up In The Air, starring Geo...
Death And Infrastructure: Thrilling Wonder Stories II 28 Nov 2010 | 02:00 am
The two hour delay I faced getting into central London yesterday seemed somehow thematic of the day. A “suspected fatality” somewhere on the Paddington to Swansea rail line had brought things to a sta...
The Prosthetic Imagination 23 Sep 2010 | 08:45 pm
This is one of 50 posts about cyborgs a project to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the coining of the term. “We tend to equate virtual with disembodied, even though it would be more accurate to u...
I’m Working On Something Fairly Big, And It’s Taking Some Time 26 Jul 2010 | 01:51 am
Some of you will already know what it is. Hopefully I will be able to blog about it soon. The project should soon result in www.big-robot.com pointing somewhere other than this blog. For entirely unr...
This Gaming Life Digital Version Now Online 6 Jul 2010 | 10:09 pm
It’s readable in full here. And it could have been there for ages, but no one told me. Why would they? I only wrote the damned thing.
Talk To Me About The Future Of Humanity 20 Jun 2010 | 01:01 am
Last Wednesday I spent some time at Future Human‘s “Immersion Drama” event at The Book Club in Shoreditch, London. The attending crowd was a fashionable herd consisting of more of the local Old St dig...
Victory For The Apocalypticians? 31 May 2010 | 03:38 am
Dystopia and apocalypse are consistently popular imaginative themes. Between Jericho and The Road, or 2012 and The World Without Us, there is a sprawling middle ground of abandoned metropolises and im...
Only Four Shuttle Flights Remain 6 Apr 2010 | 01:18 am
Strikingly sad realisation that manned space-flight is at an all time low point. Those flights that are planned now are maintenance of the ailing space station, and tourism for the super-wealthy. As B...
The Ghost Of A Wheelbarrow 3 Mar 2010 | 01:09 am
A couple of years ago we bought a house. Half a house, really, as it was the end of a 19th-century cottage. We’d been living there for a month or two when we found something peculiar in the letterbox....
Rock, Paper, Shotgun, And Why We Need To Make Publications Into Homes, Or Maybe Just Local Pubs 16 Feb 2010 | 01:45 am
I was fascinated to read Wired UK‘s take on the Apple tablet, the rivals to the Kindle, and the race to create a digital magazine format, as featured in the latest issue of that magazine. Peter Kirwan...
