Beyond the Frame

My review of the Philip K. Dick's short stories published by Standards Ebooks. A selection of (mostly) war stories from the early career of the renowned science fiction author.

https://schmud.de/books/short-fiction-dick.html

My review of the Philip K. Dick's short stories published by Standards Ebooks. A selection of (mostly) war stories from the early career of the renowned science fiction author.

Short Fiction of Philip K. Dick A selection of (mostly) war stories from the early career of the renowned science fiction author.

One of our favorite blogs, "On an Overgrown Path," just responded to our 2020 post "Notes From the Ambient Church." We updated the original with an addendum to address how encoding music as notation ensured that classical music would endure. But at the same time this practice also placed limits on what is acceptable within the genre. https://schmud.de/posts/2020-04-26-ambient-church.html is a musical take on information and time.

Notes From the Ambient Church Formally encoding Western music enabled its propagation through the centuries, creating an industry and a practice where this notation is essentially requisite.

"It is no coincidence that many of today’s preeminent technology companies are really advertising companies and shopping malls."

Beyond the Frame takes a look at the increasingly adversarial nature of Human Computer Interaction: https://schmud.de/posts/2022-08-23-the-consumer-computer.html

How the Consumer Computer is Consuming Computing When the personal computer went from being a "bicycle for the mind" to a surveilled shopping mall.

"The Shapeless Unease" is one of the best I read this year. It's a novel of disorienting time dilation where days and nights coalesce into a maddening blur.

A full review of Samantha Harvey's brilliant work:

The Shapeless Unease A novel of disorienting time dilation where days and nights coalesce into a maddening blur.

We've had the public internet, we've had the Clintonian Internet, and now we should set a path towards "A Different Internet."

A Different Internet The internet was a public innovation co-opted by private interests. Making it work for the people starts with a fresh approach to personal data.