LITERARY INSIGHT from PRESENT & PAST a maximum-security prison, a group of incarcerated men are discussing theme, memorizing lines, donning Goodwill clothes as costumes, and exploring their role in the humanities... Performing Shakespeare in Prison Belt Magazine " WHATWE’RE READING Virtual reality has been the next new thing for five years and counting. Clunky headsets, a dearth of content, and lack of consumer interest have caused VR to stall. Can this much-hyped technology finally catch on? The Fall and Rise of VR: The Struggle to Make Virtual Reality Get Real Fortune At Indiana’s Pendleton Correctional Facility,
The 2013 movie Her, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson, is a sci-fi romantic drama about a man who develops a relationship with his AI virtual assistant... He falls in love with Siri. Beautifully directed, the film is a cautionary tale that raises some important questions about humans and AI, the Internet. There will be records, of course (stored in the intangibly limitless archive of the cloud), but the actual lived experience of what it was like to think and feel and be human before the emergence of big data will be gone. When that happens, what will be lost? Innocence lost: what did you do before the Internet? The Guardian There’s a famous Gandhi aphorism about howmovements progress: “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” It’s remarkable how often it accurately describes the evolution of causes, from legal cannabis to gay marriage, and now “alt meat.” This Is the Beginning of the End of the Beef Industry Outside Instantaneous communication can be destructive. We need to tweak our digital platforms to make time for extra eyes, cooler heads, and second thoughts... Twitter Needs a Pause Button The Atlantic Quite soon, no person on Earth will remember what the world was like before
In our digital world, a misdirected text or simple keyboard error can trigger huge unintended consequences... This article details some real-life examples of when technology mistakes have caused earth- shattering results. From a wrongful arrest to a life-saving romance: the typos that have changed people’s lives The Guardian
and if love truly has no boundaries. Ain’t Got No Body The New Yorker
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