History of semiconductor industry; ‘Hangtime’.

Book review: Queisser’s monograph about the micro-chip; ‘Psycho Dream’.

“What was assured to be ‘impossible’, sure to run costs into the millions, and
companies into the ground, and brilliant and innovative entrepreneurs into
poverty and the horror of mass normalcy, now suddenly was — possible —
with 3-4 people working out of bedrooms; whose visit card was a pink
website…”

‘River Story’; Labor organizing in tech.

the following essay introduces a work whose English-language
coverage, scientific or otherwise, is near non existent with no translation
available in 30 years; by inserting Linda Cube into a proper context (i.e. the
animation and video game landscape of its time), offering partial translations,
and giving an entry into Tatsuyuki Tanaka’s a…[Read more]

Social history of micro-chips; Japanese ‘imports’. Chip making in Taiwan and South + Princess Crown and Touge Max G

Introduction to available material on the first E3 (primarily visual and journalistic).

Introduction to the not exported work by Yonemitsu.

Dreamcast Japanese ‘unveiling’ event; Square’s Racing Lagoon

‘Opening the Xbox’ book review; Milano Part-Time Job Collection

‘Revolutionaries at Sony’ book review (From System G to Playstation)

“A video game virtually unknown to the West was a founding 3D horror game of the 1990s – here introduced…”

Ore no Ryouri; and origins of NBA 2K

Spurs and Starcraft; Mister Mosquito

Brave New World 1998 film and novel compared, Doshin the Giant

Policenauts fan translation; Bostrom; ‘Brave New World’ film adaptations…

(materialist changes tables and minor modifications, 21)

Introducing the early philosophical mecha…

“Bubblegum Crisis starts out as a radical work with images of mass poverty and abject misery … but by its abrupt end, in the final episode, proposes a liberal explanation straight of Leibniz : [Mega Toyko] is the best possible of worlds”

“…mecha battles, on the outside, are internal struggles over one’s identity; Bubblegum Crisis is a philosophical mecha pre-dating (and influencing) Evangelion.”