Author: Richard
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Walking the Canals
This morning I walked through heritage of a different kind, the canal network here in the Black Country is much closer to home in both time and space than Belas Knap. The canals were once the industrial lifeblood of this country, carrying heavy goods along their lengths; drawn by horses or driven by motors, the…
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A trip to Belas Knap
I started to write this post inside a Neolithic Long Barrow. A wonderful old place of still stone and earth, with the modern world at a distance. The sense of the ancient people, our ancestors, is strong here. I sit looking around this low stone chamber, the ceiling low enough that I must stoop to…
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Thinking about AI Art
This is a hot topic. In the last few years a lot of content in all formats has been created with the use of generative Artificial Intelligence tools. It allows people who wouldn’t otherwise be able to, to generate some fairly nifty results. In many ways this is a win, you can easily and cheaply…
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So, I’m a Technoskeptic?
It seems perhaps contradictory, at least at first. I’m a geek, a user of GNU/Linux, a programmer, a gamer, I think AI has potential, I believe virtual worlds can have a beneficial use. All that, and a Technoskeptic? Hear me out…. Our technologies have done wonderful things for us, better quality of life and longer…
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Things to say
This feels like a turning of a spiral, somehow the old is new, I turn full circle but am in a different place. I’m going to be covering a few topics here on my website. Technology, including skepticism of it, is one subject. I am going to be pondering Taoism, and Modern Druidry. I hope…