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Birthday Song

I listened to Johnny Cash’s rendition of Hurt this morning and dissolved into a well of emotion–a sense of recognition, feelings of hope, regret, longing, and even relief. A song to acknowledge an imperfect and at times dissolute life. But one that ends with the possibility of redemption. …

Birthday

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Birthday Song
Birthday Song
Birthday

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Mar 19

Our AI Future

This article was constructed using the app Design Fiction (a provisional name), an AI-assisted suite of “applied futurism” tools currently under development by Headcanon. It’s a record of a conversation with the app’s Applied Futurist persona. More about the Design Fiction app after the article. What will a typical day look like in the future when our lives are supported and even managed by AI? As an applied futurist, I…

AI

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Our AI Future
Our AI Future
AI

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Jun 5, 2021

Trauma/Renewal

For me, the experience of this past year and a half has been a paradoxical laminate of trauma and renewal. We can’t always tell that we’re being traumatized when we’re in the thick of it. It’s only in retrospect that we can see the contours of suffering. But perhaps the…

Pandemic

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Trauma/Renewal
Trauma/Renewal
Pandemic

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May 21, 2021

I Tried To Buy an NFT and Regret It
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Louis Petrik

To be precise, you tried to buy an NFT on Ethereum in an open market.

To be precise, you tried to buy an NFT on Ethereum in an open market. There's a lot more to this than that. Different formats, costs, and experiences possible on other platforms like NEAR and Tezos. Not to mention Flow Blockchain and collectibles by Dapper Labs. The quality of work should be unsurprising. Unless you expected to find all of the art or even most of it to be high quality, which doesn't happen in any form, medium, or marketplace.

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Mar 13, 2020

For book publishers and non-profits with conferences canceled due to COVID-19, we’re making the Publica online library and reader/media player available free of charge.

Our aim is to support the move to online conferences, with globally available publication repositories for the widest range of media types–aligned with our mission to enable the free flow of information, knowledge, and culture worldwide. As we witness the wave of cancellations of vital gatherings and conferences due to the COVID-19 pandemic, our publishing and media commerce service, Publica, has decided to offer our service free of charge to

Covid-19

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For book publishers and non-profits with conferences canceled due to COVID-19, we’re making the…
For book publishers and non-profits with conferences canceled due to COVID-19, we’re making the…
Covid-19

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Mar 3, 2020

Going Publica

I’ve been working on something since the start of 2020 that I’m happy to go public with now. Delighted and excited to announce that I’m now heading up U.S. Strategy and Business Development for a remarkable publishing and media commerce service called Publica. Born in Buenos Aires and global in…

Publishing

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Going Publica
Going Publica
Publishing

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Jan 6, 2019

Bandersnatch, Interactive Storytelling, and The Business We’re In

I remember getting my first laptop, a Macintosh Portable, around 1990 maybe? I took it out to Long Island one weekend to show my father, an inquisitive, self-educated man who worked with his hands and back, how I was redefining literature. Yes, that’s how I thought about what I was…

Storytelling

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Bandersnatch, Interactive Storytelling, and The Business We’re In
Bandersnatch, Interactive Storytelling, and The Business We’re In
Storytelling

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·Oct 7, 2017

Eugene

Did you know Eugene? Manhattan, ’78, ’79. Tall guy, bald on top even though he couldn’t have been thirty, with sort of a handlebar mustache, knife-edge crease in his slacks, check shirt, and a sport jacket with gold buttons no doubt fifty bucks but looking sharp at Robert Hall. Sweet…

Fiction

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Eugene
Eugene
Fiction

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Aug 7, 2014

The Perfect Bookstore

I confess I’m puzzled by one reported outcome of the recent two-day session in New York aimed at defining, and maybe even laying the groundwork for a perfect, dream bookstore. Organizer (and friend) Chris Kubica set out with a strong agenda and the group included true luminaries, and so hopes…

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The Perfect Bookstore
The Perfect Bookstore

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