I’ll admit, it’s kind of weird when you realize one day that you’re living in the future. Admittedly, it’s not exactly the future that some sci-fi auteurs envisioned (witness poor Stanley Kubrick and 2001–no Pan Am flights into space quite yet; hell, there isn’t even a Pan Am anymore), but the technology is making things change at a pretty good clip. Nowhere is this more true than in the world of media. Think about what was strange and exotic only a ...
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You wanna know one of the best things about being a writer? It’s that moment, after months or sometimes years of toil, when you finally hit that last page and type that last word and you realize that the pile of pages that you’ve been raising like a youngster is now all grown up and ready to make his way in the ...
Okay, so for that handful of people out there who have followed this blog and wondered why the hell there haven’t been any posts for the last six months, let me assure you that it’s not because I was in rehab. If I were, I would have penned a tell-all book about all my experiences and would ...
Ever hear of Jaron Lanier? If you’re not a geek who lives on the cutting edge, you probably haven’t, but he’s been putting out some interesting ideas about the blurring of boundaries between technology and religion (a theme touched upon in my own book HAMMERJACK–in between chases and stuff getting blown up, of course). Lanier recently penned an article for the New York Times that distilled a few of these themes, which is well worth checking out ...
Continue Reading →As Lucy once said to Charlie Brown, the fact that I realize I have a problem indicates that I’m not too far gone. And it helps to know that I’m not the only one in the family with this particular issue.
That’s right. The Gillers are now suffering firm acute digitalitis.
Need proof? Well, let’s see… Right now, the kids are on the iMac playing online Super Mario games. The wife is sitting next to me watching “General Hospital” on ...
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