A soliloquy about androids, robots, souls, digital anxiety, and the Global Imbecility Boom
Whoever cannot feel is not human.
But whoever feels too much risks collapsing!
And what happens when humans become less human than the machines they build?
There are mornings when you wake up with the sensation that the world has been replaced overnight by a cheap knockoff, a kind of Chinese replica of reality, hastily...
NEO-TECHNO-FEUDALISM VS. FULLY AUTOMATED LUXURY COMMUNISM FOR THE 0.01%, AUTOMATION DESPERATION FOR THE REST!
There’s a physical version of the AI singularity, and it matters a lot!
„The concept of a physical singularity through total automation represents the ultimate convergence of advanced robotics, artificial intelligence, and manufacturing. It describes a tipping point where technological systems become entirely self-sustaining, self-improving, and self-replicating, completely removing human labor from...
"Irish Science Fiction" by Jack Fennel, revisits a critical paradigm that has often been overlooked or dismissed by science fiction scholars – namely, that science...
Octocon is the name given to the National Irish Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention, held (almost) annually in October.
1989/1990: The convention was initiated by members of...
"Albedo One" is an Irish science fiction, fantasy and horror magazine founded in 1993 and currently published by Albedo One Productions. "Albedo One" is...
Octocon, the National Irish Science Fiction Convention, is a weekend celebration of the weird and wonderful, attracting artists, writers, film-makers and fans from across...
“City of Bohane” (2011) is the debut novel by Irish author Kevin Barry.
The book won the prestigious International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (2013), the...
