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Because the future has just started
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October 2026
- Future XR glasses
- First build a prototype
- Fleeing to Miami
- The future of AI as a utility, part 2
- The future of AI as a utility, part 1
- Puzzles
- Quality of life
- On-line simulation
- Better heroes
- A lightbulb moment
- What is he really saying?
- Asking an A.I. rather than other people
- Virtual window
- The project is not completely yours
- Digital double
- Vibe vibing
- Oysters
- World Builder revisited
- Those who know, know
- Escaping into code
- Livestreaming an execution
- Ken's Blog
- Moral courage
- What he meant was…
- Computational colonialism
- The Our Town principle
- Tiny people
- Swapping stories
- My contest
- A new beginning
September 2026
- Only one project
- The simulation of the simulation
- Boundary conditions
- Classical musicals
- Repeated viewings
- Matrix order
- Jim Henson
- Tower of Babel
- Spelling errors
- Halloumi poem openings
- All the knowledge in the world
- The future
- Tune typing
- So much depends
- Politics
- The highest level programming language
- Emulation
- Rank
- 28 years later
- The ceremony downtown
- The one thing everyone could agree about
- A love-hate relationship
- Noise is everywhere
- Every once in a while
- The ladder of tools
- The frog in the pot
- Implicit
- Great Lakes
- Tools
- Slept
August 2026
- Who came first?
- Aesthetically terrifying
- The concert at Candlestick Park (8/29/66)
- Transform simulator
- Tim Curry
- Thought for the day
- Dolly Parton
- Enders Game, the documentary
- A virus is destroying our military
- From demo to tool
- A world of ray traced boxes
- AI and the future of montage
- Inbetween days
- The unfairness of time
- Internal and external worlds
- Magic in storytelling
- Successful failures
- Mirror mirror
- Remote versus in person meetings
- Formal presentations
- Moments of grace
- Ersatz
- In collaboration with A.I.
- A problem with AI conversation assistants
- Putting together a talk
- Soma cube, part 2
- Flat earth mystery
- Holographic Zoom
- If you could record everything that happens
- AI for students to check their work
- Who invented it first?
- Time capsule musical
July 2026
- Soma cube
- Post-digital
- No sense of decency
- In demos begin responsibilities
- The Odyssey
- A name for everything
- Productive illusions
- Productive
- Crosstown elephants go West
- Fate
- When things go unexpectedly right
- Electronic Theater
- Spain won
- Originalist casting
- The underlying message
- Mexican food
- Predictive A.I.
- A terrible mistake
- My program
- Uncle Miltie
- I changed only one detail
- A conversation at SIGGRAPH
- Proper attribution in chatbots
- Righteous anger
- Making tools
- Sheer stupidity
- Iago dies
- Celebrating July 4th
- After the push
- Where the learning happens
- The good news and the bad news
June 2026
- Beating the odds
- Programming without AI
- Two notable events
- A good start
- Triage mode
- Happy Birthday George Orwell
- When bad things happen
- Conservation of blue
- 100% Garbo
- Self-sabotage
- What makes “Groundhog Day” profound
- Juneteenth
- Darwinian
- A hypothetical question
- Meeting ourselves
- The average person
- Herpetology
- Graffiti removal
- DEIMAG, part 6
- DEIMAG, part 5
- DEIMAG, part 4
- DEIMAG, part 3
- DEIMAG, part 2
- DEIMAG, part 1
- My current plan
- Incentives, part 2
- Incentives, part 1
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