Stories by: Emru Townsend

Here's why futurists look to Japan: while we just got around to finding someone willing to write a book on a cell phone, in Japan people have been reading books on cell phones for years.

When I got my first computer, its manual stated in bold type that it was a bad idea to eat or drink near it -- something I can't forget because, like most people, I spent the intervening 20+ years cheerfully ignoring that mandate, from my morning hot beverage to the various carb-, salt- and MSG-heavy foodstuffs that fueled uncountable all-night gaming/coding/animating/writing binges. Not eat near my computer or game console? How do they expect me to survive?

In the television industry, you have to be careful when you take a sabbatical because someone younger and prettier will try to horn in on your territory while you're gone.