An alien spaceship has blasted a hole in my ceiling and is landing on the floor in front of my bookcases. It’s a game on the Meta Quest 3 headset named “First Encounters.” My office is fully visible through the passthrough cameras. In the picture above, you can see a giant moon hanging in the…
Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses have cameras in the frames. You can take pictures and shoot videos, then upload them. It’s a fast and convenient way to record a moment without pulling out your phone. You can post the images to Facebook or Instagram, or ask AI questions about them. Last week two Harvard students got viral coverage of…
Take a minute – literally just one minute – and listen to the beginning of one of these podcast conversations about recent books. Each is about ten minutes long but just listen to the first minute of one of them to get the idea. I’ll wait. Veilpiercer by Bruce Berls (Amazon) The Avatar Murders by Jim Rowson (Amazon) Wild…
Veilpiercer received a starred review from IndieReader. I don’t know the reviewer but it’s obvious he is insightful and charming and probably handsome and much sought after. He says nice things like this: “With both dry absurdism and great humanity, Bruce Berls’s VEILPIERCER successfully turns 21st-century concerns about technology and society into a rollicking vision of…