https://www.leash.bio/ building a very big new database of molecules and their protein interactions, designed for training ML models on. This is the Way.
most of his examples are movies & TV but I think Vernor Vinge does an especially good job at telling stories that are centrally about tech, and involve tech far beyond our own, and are even in some ways “utopian”, but aren’t dull. Mostly they center on the problems at the edges of where the tech breaks down, or interpersonal conflicts where the tech defines the means at each party’s disposal.
links 4/22/25: https://roamresearch.com/#/app/srcpublic/page/04-22-2025
https://visakanv.substack.com/p/why-frame-studies Visakan Veerasamy’s outline for the new media studies project
https://www.leash.bio/ building a very big new database of molecules and their protein interactions, designed for training ML models on. This is the Way.
https://newsletter.rootsofprogress.org/p/sci-fi-without-dystopia Jason Crawford says yes, science fiction in high-tech settings can be dramatic without taking an anti-tech stance.
most of his examples are movies & TV but I think Vernor Vinge does an especially good job at telling stories that are centrally about tech, and involve tech far beyond our own, and are even in some ways “utopian”, but aren’t dull. Mostly they center on the problems at the edges of where the tech breaks down, or interpersonal conflicts where the tech defines the means at each party’s disposal.