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Pocket Gamer Connects SF

July 8, 2015 Videogames, Writing Comments Off on Pocket Gamer Connects SF

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I have to admit, Pocket Gamer Connects is one of my favorite app conferences.  I went to their Helsinki event last year, and I was invited to speak this year at the event here in San Francisco.  They always have some of the coolest speakers, not just the big marketing talks, or the monetization talks, which are interesting, sure, but they get a whole host of smaller developers.  They get talks on the indie experience, or they get different local takes on different aspects of development.  Couple that with a fairly creative eye with regards to what you might consider an “event space” and you get a great intimate event with a lot more networking potential than you might otherwise find at some of the larger venues.

Little Nibbles

June 28, 2015 future, Writing Comments Off on Little Nibbles

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Progress is being made on all fronts with regards to microscopic medical devices.  It’s not taking the form we might have imagined once upon a time, no self-replicating nano-bots, no magic chemical elixirs to restore youth and vigor.  But you know, the future never does.  You can see the roots of many technologies in the kids of things futurists and science friction writers come up with, but the ultimate result, the practical application is often very different.

Most of the time, IMHO, it’s somehow even cooler, these future technologies come to life.  When you read about them, when you try to envision them, your ideas are almost always incomplete.  You’re working with the gestalt, the overall concept, rather than the specifics.  But when you see those specifics operating IRL, when you see the bits turn and bend, when you see the shadows they cast and the way they hang in solution, they suddenly become the kind of real that your imagination can’t quite compare to.

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