I am getting old, and I am worried about my suspension of disbelief. When I was younger my suspension of disbelief was in fine form – I remember watching the original Star Wars as a boy and barely wondering why massive super-tech star ships bothered with dogfighting (later Iain M. Banks showed me otherwise), later […]
Month: July 2013
Canyons, Deltas and Plains
I’m not a hard-nosed computer scientist. I’m more interested in people than algorithms, and that’s why my research has taken me in the direction of hypertext, UX and narrative. That’s also why earlier this month I was so sad to hear about the death of Douglas Engelbart, the American Scientist who thought that computers could […]