It’s Finals time The AFL Grand Final is played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground every year, apart from the COVID years when Melbourne wasn’t available. It’s one of those fixtures that seems carved into the national calendar. The last Saturday in September means football at the MCG. This year, neither team comes from Victoria. Brisbane…
Artificial Intelligence has become the flavour of the year, with much discussion on the merits and the dangers of the new technology. Many years ago, around 1990 or so, I attended a class in programming for AI. Back then it was (of course) very rudimentary but the idea was that the program we were learning…
The news that the submersible Titan imploded as it descended towards the remains of the Titanic came as a macabre relief. Instant death as opposed to ninety-six hours of sitting in a cramped can waiting to die. While the search was on, my writer’s brain was already edging toward a story – the curse of…