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Vincent A Murphy How we are witnessing the fastest mass cognitive transition in recorded history We are living at the twilight of the Printocene.For roughly five hundred years, print has been the dominant medium through which civilisation met information. It made knowledge feel solid, scarce, and sacral. Books were heavy objects, expensively made and reverently… Continue reading Twilight of the Printocene & the Dawn of Ludicity

Tom Haymes “But the scanty wisdom of man, on entering into an affair which looks well at first, cannot discern the poison that is hidden in it… Therefore, if he who rules a principality cannot recognize evils until they are upon him, he is not truly wise; and this insight is given to few.”  – Machiavelli,… Continue reading Object to Idea: Information Paradigms at the Dawn of AI

Tess Rafferty I have written and produced on over 500 episodes of television. I have also written a series of novels. And as a reader, I devour murder mysteries like they’re pie the day after Thanksgiving. Two years ago I started learning Ai filmmaking which made me curious about other emerging technologies and how they were… Continue reading Augmented Creativity: The Future Of Writing In XR

Sam Brooker 
“The future is already here, it’s just not very evenly distributed” – nor, indeed, is our enthusiasm. More than once, in faculty meetings or discussions with industry colleagues, I’ve heard a world-weary the AI genie isn’t going back in the bottle or a beleaguered it is very clever spoken with the resignation normally… Continue reading The Chloropyll Moment

Ken Pfeuffer It is now a normal part of everyday life that many of us interact with a wide variety of digital devices, often continuously. Smartphones, laptops, desktop PCs, tablets, smartwatches, TVs, smart glasses, XR headsets, video game controllers, smart speakers, and even cars and household robotic appliances—computing is everywhere. Not everyone uses all of… Continue reading The Growing Complexity of Everyday Devices

Ken Perlin In a few years, when everyone gets used to wearing those future extended reality glasses in public spaces, text will be everywhere. Sometimes it will appear very large and looming against the sky. At other times it will show up on a convenient wall.Then there is the text that will be hovering between… Continue reading Future glasses and future text



Dene Grigar The NEXT (https://the-next.eliterature.org) is a virtual museum and library created by the Electronic Literature Lab at Washington State University Vancouver that holds thousands of born-digital games, art, and literature dating back to the 1980s onward. The NEXT also holds, along with these the digital files that comprise these work, physical artifacts––such as packaging,… Continue reading Making Physical Artifacts from Virtual Museums Accessible

David E. Millard Welcome to the post-document world. A place where our written messages are merely an ephemeral part of a machine translation from the intent of a sender to the preferences of a recipient [11]. This is a world where readers interact far less with fixed, discrete texts authored by individuals, and instead receive… Continue reading After Documents

Alessio Antonini In the public and academic discourse, this latest breed of AI (LLMs, LRMs and MLLMs) is frequently framed as an author, with related concerns that AI is going to replace knowledge and creative practice jobs whose main outputs are different forms of text. A more optimistic perspective sees AI in an assistant role,… Continue reading Authoring for AI