Dear Log,
«The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, in a moment of reasoned lucidity which is almost unique among its current tally of 5,975,509 pages, says of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation products that [I]t is very easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of them by the sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all.
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Dear Log,
Quoting from William Gibson, The Peripheral (2014), chapter 79, called "the jackpot":
[The central character here is a ~18-year-old in small-town Tennessee? circa 2030. She is talking to Wilf, who is communicating backward in time from ~2095, via (at the moment) a "Wheelie Boy"-- a toy that's like an iPad mounted on a little Segway]
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Dear Log,
I hereby expose you to a bit of prose that depicts something that I refer to, in my personal lexicon, as simply "The Nightmare":
«Shutting down the Troupe's systems was delicate ( Read more... )

Dear Log,
The core idea of fifth-generation warfare is shaping up to be: "make it look like an accident".