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Jun 17, 2022

The girl at the end of the world

Sheena fluttered down between the cliff faces. The emerald river rushed up towards her. Little imperfections turned into bursts of stone, the undulating green into waving grass that pushed either side as she pulled up from her dive, and alighted off her wind scooter. She stepped onto the green she’d…

Science Fiction

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The girl at the end of the world
The girl at the end of the world
Science Fiction

68 min read


Nov 9, 2021

Energy becomes information

How cryptocurrency might incentivise renewables (if they don’t kill us first) Cryptocurrencies as they currently exist have a huge carbon cost compared to their current actual utility. They account for .55% of our global carbon footprint, and while they promise to serve many purposes, right now they use a non-negligible…

Cryptocurrency

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Energy becomes information
Energy becomes information
Cryptocurrency

15 min read


Published in Short Stories from Samuel Tate

·Feb 16, 2021

Market Research

This tea is too hot. I’ve had a long day, I have to see my wife tonight, so I’m in a rush and I don’t have time to drink hot tea. I know I’m supposed to write important things down in this journal. But all I can think to write…

Speculative Fiction

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Speculative Fiction

7 min read


Published in Short Stories from Samuel Tate

·Jan 4, 2021

The Dopple

Jack — 7th Birthday ‘Hey honey, look who’s up, yes it’s you little sleepy head! Today’s the big day, 7 years old! Come down stairs. Before the party there’s someone I want you to meet.” ‘Are we doing presents now?” …

Sci Fi Fantasy

16 min read

Sci Fi Fantasy

16 min read


Published in The PHORIA Project

·Jul 27, 2020

Design rounds make the world go round — XR Design/Devlog

This year the PHORIA XR team developed the app that delivered the latest PHORIA stereo 180 project, ‘ecosphere’. ‘ecosphere’ is a VR nature documentary that uses world first cameras to shoot at 60 frames per second. …

Spatial Computing

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Design rounds make the world go round — XR Design/Devlog
Design rounds make the world go round — XR Design/Devlog
Spatial Computing

5 min read


Published in The PHORIA Project

·Nov 15, 2018

Experimenting with spatial communication — Dev Log

At PHORIA, we think a lot about how communication will look with spatial computing. We ask, what will the vocabulary of the future be? We think that people won’t just communicate with words or images, but whole environments. …

Virtual Reality

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Experimenting with spatial communication — Dev Log
Experimenting with spatial communication — Dev Log
Virtual Reality

8 min read


Published in DataDrivenInvestor

·Oct 19, 2018

We created the first artificial intelligence in 1844, and now it’s eating the world.

Intelligence, as far as we know, is the result of a network’s interactions — a series of interconnected nodes that pass information back and forth. Our own neural networks do this to reach complex states and solve problems. These patterns create the appearance of thought and the sense of will…

Artificial Intelligence

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We created the first artificial intelligence in 1844, and now it’s eating the world.
We created the first artificial intelligence in 1844, and now it’s eating the world.
Artificial Intelligence

9 min read


Published in Short Stories from Samuel Tate

·Jun 12, 2018

A thread unbroken

I cradle my drink, or at least the analogue of it. I haven’t really been able to ‘drink’ anything in the traditional sense for the past three thousand years, but that’s why I come here. They map you at the door and simulate your memetic concept of a relaxant. To…

Fiction

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Fiction

48 min read


Published in Short Stories from Samuel Tate

·Jun 12, 2018

Intern

Richard sipped nervously at his seven-eleven coffee. He sat on a bench, watching the trams rattle down the center of Bourke Street, filled with people with somewhere to go. He’d like to be preparing for his interview inside a warm cafe. …

Short Story

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Short Story

31 min read


Aug 4, 2017

Survival in Pieces

We humans require a few things to survive. Food, shelter, warmth, water. As society has developed, there has been increasing layers of abstraction between our actions, and these core needs. To service these needs, we’ve built static, unsustainable networks that rob us of accountability and agency over our own survival…

Energy

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Survival in Pieces
Survival in Pieces
Energy

5 min read

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Samuel Tate

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