Media The Intermediaries All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again, a sentiment originating with J.M. Barrie's introduction to Peter Pan and popularized more recently in the Battlestar Galactica reboot, came to mind often as I read Brandy Schillace's excellent "The Intermediaries: A
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Media What's next, Squid Game: The Musical? Squid Game: The Breakfast Cereal? A number of shows and movies that depict the competitions of the sort seen in Squid Game as a dystopian aspect of an authoritarian state. In none of them is a winner-take-all death match portrayed as a positive thing for society.
Media Robots Are People, Too I once had the opportunity to chat with science fact and fiction author Annalee Newitz at a Bay Area Bookstore and Chocolate Crawl shortly after they had published their first novel Autonomous, and I remember asking how they were able to imagine a future that wasn't a total
