- A Mind Forever Voyaging: a text adventure computer game from the golden era of the Infocom company: in brief, the player portrays a sentient AI who is tasked by a think tank to experience and extrapolate potential government policies. Viewed through an AST lens, the player feels in conversation with the author of the game as it progresses, something that's hard to convey in a non-interactive medium. (Of course in reality it remains a one-way conversation since interactive though it is it remains a linear experience.)
- Network Security in the Medium Term: 2061-2561: SF writer Charlie Stross gave this keynote at an academic computer security conference, extrapolating trends that seemed fantastical in 2011 but already exist today like always-video streaming cloud-connect wearables and carries forth implications for the infosec community.
A few AST suggestions from unlikely places:
- A Mind Forever Voyaging: a text adventure computer game from the golden era of the Infocom company: in brief, the player portrays a sentient AI who is tasked by a think tank to experience and extrapolate potential government policies. Viewed through an AST lens, the player feels in conversation with the author of the game as it progresses, something that's hard to convey in a non-interactive medium. (Of course in reality it remains a one-way conversation since interactive though it is it remains a linear experience.)
- Network Security in the Medium Term: 2061-2561: SF writer Charlie Stross gave this keynote at an academic computer security conference, extrapolating trends that seemed fantastical in 2011 but already exist today like always-video streaming cloud-connect wearables and carries forth implications for the infosec community.