golf commentators

Almost the only thing that golf commentators say: “It might go in.”

‘Story of the Future’ seminar

The last decade of writing, and tools & platforms:

New technology allows texts to be updated, for the reader to have ‘sessions’ with texts, and for the texts' boundaries to be unclear, with no audience ownership.

[Interesting rhetoric: but I suppose it’s worth asserting the divisions.]

It’s about having fictional worlds enter real life, in which there are now more gamers than viewers.

[Is it, then, artefact versus activity?]

This type of writing is rules, missions, dialogue, rather than plain narrative.

Teams of writers are more common now in this milieu. The presenter proposed that it’s the “death of the author and the birth of the world.”

[Really? Postmodernism had a go at killing off the author, but ultimately failed. Will video kill the radio star?]

No more generations

Baby boomers’ grandchildren are the generation that will do even more damage than the boomers.

They will suck the last useful resources from a world that the previous generations have fucked up. If they still can, they will bomb their neighbours — just for extra elbow-room and a bit of last comfort.

And they will father children who will be more tribal than humans have been for millennia.

No more generations.

Buddhist tale

“Two monks cross a bridge. There are cherry blossoms. One says, ‘Should we eat now?’ The other one says, ‘But I’m taller.’”