Fresh Kills is a genre-defying experimental work of fiction that looks at accelerating technological growth through the eyes of residents of New York's "forgotten borough," Staten Island. Poetry fr...
A mind-boggling odyssey into the future leads to alien worlds, alternate timelines and neural nets. Ultimately a vast conspiracy is uncovered, revealing the surreal nature of the universe and the ...
All about a landmark painting, which raised a ruckus. It was a landmark between several art movements. Analysis of the symbolism, and the political uses of the movement, to which the painting was ...
Friedman uses the metaphor of a flat world to describe what he calls the evening out of competition in the 21st century. In a nutshell: technology has enabled numerous people in developing countrie...
The Art of Noises (L'arte dei Rumori) is a Futurist manifesto, written by Luigi Russolo in a 1913 letter to friend and Futurist composer Francesco Balilla Pratella. In it, Russolo argues that the h...
Virtual Drama: Notes on Creating Living Story Worlds: Vol I (237 pp, PDF) is an introduction to the concepts, prospects, and
problems of fully immersive, 24/7 virtual reality storytelling. The boo...
A burned out software developer becomes careless after working far too many hours. He finds himself with partial amnesia and totally disembodied after a bug in his code crashes his system. As he se...
Within 2 years, the leading music blogs will become what used to be called 'Record Labels'. The people running them will be those sharp, tuned-in, hyper-networked and resourceful BlogJs formerly kn...
a free chapter from the book "The Future of Music". Future of Music co-authors David Kusek and Gerd Leonhard lay out their vision for a future where music is available everywhere, like water and e...