How will design innovator Ive shape Apple’s software design? I just hope his minimalism does go all Windows 8 and make desktop computers pretend to be tablets.
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This news about Disney buying LucasFilm and planning a vast stream of Star Wars sequels seems almost like an early April Fools joke. Then again, the endless Clone Wars focus (live and animated) must end some time, right? And there are plenty of novels from which to mine movies in the Star Wars world. The experience will be a little watered down, but somewhere a good plot or space ship design will surface.
From Locus Online, a brief review of a story in the May/June 2012 issue of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, with a story by Naomi Kritzer, “Liberty’s Daughter”, which features a setting on libertarian man-made islands. May need to locate a copy. There is a sequel, “High Stakes”, which implies a possible novel on the horizon.
A review essay about Iain M. Banks’ latest Culture novel, as well as a survey of the past 25 years of Banks’ Culture fiction. Detailed and brilliantly written piece.
Significant shakeup in upper management at Apple. Will be interesting to see who takes over, as Ive now handles software and hardware design, a seemingly risky consolidation.
Found a link over at Thinking Machine blog to a short story by Jerome K. Jerome, called “The New Utopia”, which the UK Libertarian Alliance group made available online in PDF format. Jerome’s story, originally published in 1891, falls into a Swiftian satire, about two classes – the clean and the dirty, and how the state steps in to ensure everyone is washed equally.
This 2012 book looks like an interesting novel, though the “review” itself is rather limited in scope.
A brief review of Sarah Hoyt’s new sf novel, Darkship Renegades, the follow-up to her Prometheus Award winner, Darkship Thieves.
The French seem bent on getting Google and other link aggregation sites pay for any published link. An interesting take on the theory of “value”, with a link’s value inherent in its content.
Looming changes in intellectual copyright law, as the Supreme Court gets ready to hear a major case next week. Implication can eventually shut down the ability to resale anything, from books to cellphones and beyond.
