Review: The Electronic Sweatshop
I don’t recall how Barbara Garson’s The Electronic Sweatshop (1988) got onto my reading list—I certainly wasn’t reading such things back in 1988— but it’s… Read More »Review: The Electronic Sweatshop
My Science Fiction Adventure
On ageing and working
Australia’s Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, was recently reported to have warned of an “economic time bomb” caused by the increasing proportion of the aged amongst Australia’s… Read More »On ageing and working
That’s nice. Why don’t I do that?
I wrote in my last entry that I’d rather be Ion “Nuke” Newcombe, the editor of AntipodeanSF, than Mark Zuckerberg. Which begs the question: why… Read More »That’s nice. Why don’t I do that?
User-generated content as it should have been?
I was informed this week that my story Satisfaction, originally published in AntipodeanSF 236 (March 2018), had been selected for publication in an anthology We,… Read More »User-generated content as it should have been?
What if I couldn’t be a software engineer?
People who fear losing their livelihoods due to automation, off-shoring or other economic changes receive plenty of advice from politicians and futurists about the need… Read More »What if I couldn’t be a software engineer?