Guillermo del Toro adds to his legacy of genuinely fantastic stories (Mimic, Hellboy, Pan’s Labyrinth) with this beautifully told story set in a high security U.S. Government laboratory during the early 1960s. Elisa Esposito (Sally Hawkins) works on the janitorial… (READ MORE)
Downsizing is a cinematic disaster. It offers an intriguing proposal: What if we could extend the viability of human life on Earth by literally downsizing – genetically mutating people and scaling down everything by more than 90%. This premise makes… (READ MORE)
[NB: A good friend asked me for some guidance on the current controversy surrounding Net Neutrality and I thought I would share my response. I hope that this explanation sets forth the issues at hand with more clarity than the… (READ MORE)
One of the best sessions of SXSW Interactive 2017 took place on Day Five – our last day at the conference. Yasmin Green, director of research and development for Jigsaw (a Google Alphabet incubator project), took to the SXSW keynote… (READ MORE)
While the sessions in the area of marketing/communications and the state of journalism seemed more prominent, SXSW Interactive wouldn’t be what it is without the innovators who are venturing into new, imaginative realms, developing technologies that are already shaping the future…. (READ MORE)
We’ve arrived at an interesting impasse where our climate of #AltFacts has coincided with an overwhelming flood of information leaving us in a serious information crisis. What information is reliable? What is true? What is authentic and what is genuinely… (READ MORE)
The rain left a chilly day in its wake for Day Three of SXSW (brrrrr….) but the SXSW crowd was undeterred and once again flooded the streets of downtown Austin. Day Three provided more evidence that SXSW is doing a… (READ MORE)
Rain put a damper on Day Two of SXSW interactive 2017. Since most of the sessions my colleague and I planned to attend were held on the other side of the river from the heart of SXSW downtown, we took… (READ MORE)
Everyone knows that Austin is atypical of much of Texas. It didn’t come by the moniker “Keep Austin Weird” by accident. As comedian Chris Hardwick put it, Austin is a gated community where all of the vegan techie hipsters live,… (READ MORE)
If I’m counting right, this will be my seventh year at SXSW Interactive. Seven years gives you the perspective to see the changes that have taken place over the years. As I dive into SXSWi Day 1, here are a… (READ MORE)