The SFcrowsnest archive
Computers, programming and computing.
YouTube AI filmmaker Gossip Goblin, aka Zack London, has a trailer out for Gods Don't Give Gifts, an AI-assisted sci-fi horror anthology heading…
I know this is a long piece about an apparently easy operation, but it is full of decisions you are likely to make…
I greatly admire Cory Doctorow, particularly his non-fiction books. This one, The Internet Con: How To Seize The Means Of Computation’ from 2024,…
Science fiction author Isaac Asimov was not happy with early robot stories and film depictions. Quite understandably, because robots were out of control…
I thought when this book, ‘Post-Cinema: The Age Of AI’ by Scott Billups, arrived it would be a history of how artificial intelligence…
When I was offered the ‘Huion Kamvas 13 GEN 3’ to review, I had to explain I was already using ‘Huion Kamvas Pro…
**This is an update. If you’ve read this piece before, then go to the end of the article for he extra.** My editorial…
Hello everyone, Give a group of humans any amount of freedom, and it’s bound to be abused. I’ve described the Internet as a…
Hello everyone, On 19 July, we saw how a computer program glitch caused problems across the world with airlines and anything connected to…
Considering that I’m computer savvy and proficient, I haven’t taken to every innovation. A significant portion of it involves intuitively identifying the issues.…
Hello everyone, At the dawn of the digital age and the rise of e-books, many speculated that paper would become obsolete, particularly as…
In many respects, a common theme among Golden Age Science Fiction writers was envisioning an automated society. This society would liberate humans from…
