I was very frustrated by the XO laptop that I bought at the end of 2007. After grumbling in solitude for a few weeks, I…
In December 2007 I got myself a holiday present — an XO laptop (also known as OLPC, or One Laptop Per Child). I bought an…
The title suggests this panel should have been stories from tech support front lines. It was a bit more general than that. The panelists and…
Synopsis from ArmadilloCon program book. A plethora of new markets for what we used to call slipstream has blossomed over the past two years, with…
Synopsis from ArmadilloCon program book: Why have the cyberpunks abandoned the future? Do William Gibson’s “Pattern Recognition” and Bruce Sterling’s “The Zenith Angle” evidence a…
October 1, 2003 Neal Stephenson was at Book People in Austin, TX, where he signed copies of his latest book “Quicksilver”, the first book in…
Some memorable or amusing moments from panels where I didn’t take enough notes to yield an article of its own: Ideas Somebody Should Write a…
Participants: Vernor Vinge, John Gibbons (interviewer) Vernor Vinge talked about how he got started writing science fiction, about numerical parametrization of group minds, about some…
Participants: Daniel Abraham, Jess Nevins, Vernor Vinge, Sage Walker (Moderator), Don Webb Topic, according to the convention program: Our panel looks for the coming breakthrough…
Participants Kurt Baty, Tom Becker (Moderator), Alexis Glynn Latner, Bruce Sterling, Vernor Vinge Topic, according to the convention program We just thought it…