Microsoft “updated” my laptop the other day, and now my laptop can no long play the music on my external hard drive, which is the majority of my music. I tried, and the computer told me to go to the “app store ( Read more... )

Science fiction has six basic representations of technology.  The first is the rule of cool (a term I'm borrowing from TVtropes).  The rule of cool covers the creation of technology without concern for plausibility and little concern for metaphor.  "Star Wars", military SF, and most comic books fall into this catagory.  The science might as well be ( Read more... )