What is a dystopia?
What we see here is the purest form of a dystopian future. Everything we hold dear in traffic will be sacrificed for the convenience of apathatic air-conditioned slumbering in self-driving ugliness, on our way to a slightly colder place in hell. What we cherish most about 'traffic' (that concept will disappear during this disenchanting transformation) ...
The making of the killing apparatus
I hate my "work" very much. I was translating a large document about inventory management and stock taking for a beer factory. After many hours sitting behind my monitor, I saw the words flashing on my screen. Warehouse. Disposal. Stock Keeping Unit. Master Record. Signing Confirmation. Suddenly it dawned on me that if this were ...
A Digital Genius
We live with a digital genius of 011001 months old. When any object with keys or buttons is within her reach, it's hers and all the buttons get pressed in an order that to me, her father still with one foot in the analog age, appears as random. Her fingers fly over the keypads from ...