Technology Posts
Technology in the writer's life and in invented worlds: virtual reality, robots and automata, alchemical apparatus, and the lost and imagined machines of science fiction.
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First Robots in Fiction
Was Frankenstein’s creature the first robot in science fiction? Tik-Tok, Čapek, the golem and a long line of automata say the answer is much older and messier.
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Inner Alchemy: How the Search for Immortality Gave Us Better Ways to Boil Water
From Taoist immortals and Egyptian metallurgists to medieval laboratories and the invention of the bain-marie, alchemy has been quietly influencing the modern world for thousands of years.
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I Wrote This Post in Virtual Reality
A sci-fi author tries to write inside a Meta Quest 3, fails through every "obvious" input method, and ends up with a grudging respect for the tech.