Tech Tech

As Boing Boing reported earlier this morning, Singularity University is to be unveiled today. The singularity, if you’re unfamiliar, is a term coined by Vernor Vinge that refers to the rapid acceleration of technological change*.  For an example, think of how quickly computers have evolved.  Here’s a graph of the exponential growth in mass use [...]

Narrative development

So, since there’s a light trickle of literary people to my blog, I’m going to type up what are the beginnings of some thinking I’ve been doing about narrative theory (using this term a bit loosely). And I’d like to know what you think. In the thousands and thousands of pieces of writing I’ve read [...]

Inside Pixar

The latest issue of the Harvard Business Review has an article on Pixar’s work culture. If you’re at all interested in the business of creativity, you should check it out. It’s written toward a general audience, and is not particularly academic (it’s written with MBA types in mind), which makes it really readable. Pixar does [...]

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