Dad. Husband. Author. Technology Consultant. Writes about W3.0 and emerging technologies, as well as about Speculative and Experimental Fiction. https://beacons.ai/vrocampo
The only flying prototype of the Kyūshū J7W was tested for only 45 minutes in reality, but you can see a fictional recreation of the Shinden prototype fly in the excellent movie Godzilla minus One.
Trump, and MAGA America, need to see that their actions have global consequences. Another Trump presidency will bring the whole world closer to Armageddon.
With Joel Donato Ching Jacob and Claire Betita de Guzman at the 15th Asian Festival of Children's Content. So chuffed to have a science fiction story in this senies: Filipino Fiction for Young Adults.
As a writer and someone who works in the technology space, I am deeply concerned about the IMDA's plans to build a Southeast Asia-focused large language model (LLM). Singapore Unbound does a great job of explaining why in their position paper here -
singaporeunbound.org/oped/imda-in...
Superb on every level. I've only seen two episodes so far, but I love how it has updated the original 90s series in such a smart, contemporary way without losing the original aesthetic. The catchy theme song will live rent-free in my head this whole month.
Exploring the implications of futuristic technologies and the social structures enabled by them was behind the project Cntrl+Alt+Delete by Nanyang Technological University, the Singapore government, and four speculative fiction writers (myself, Sarah Ang, Wen-yi Lee and Nuraliah Norasid).
Last Saturday, we got to talk about our SF stories and the cutting-edge technologies we wrote about at Syneygy Art x Tech Fringe Festival at the Figma Clubhouse organized by #Tusitala and #BeFantastic. Poet, technologist and civil servant Hao Guang facilitated.
