The Literate Kitty

What do you get when you throw a tough fighter pilot (with her own sporty little starship)...  a wunderkind (who can manipulate some Seriously Big Stuff with her mind)...  a would-be space pirate (with a distinctly romantic side)... a robot preacher (as in, clergywoman made of actual metal)...   an older, wiser space spy ( somehow everything just sounds cooler when you put “space” in front of it, doesn’t it? )...  and a sentient spaceship (a female ship with Artificial Intelligence, who is as persnickety about keeping her surfaces spiffy-clean as she is about trying to keep her captain alive) together…  then toss ‘em smack-dab in the middle of an about-to-erupt, epic space battle ( see? totally cooler than just “a battle” ), against a hodgepodge horde of the galaxy’s meanest hombres, who’re hellbent on destroying your worlds and adding you to their vast number, if possible (or killing you dead, if not)?  Pure. Unadulterated. Awesomeness . ( You tota...

Sometimes we all need a little shock to the system—something unexpected, that we know nothing about—to grab our attention, making us sit up and take note. And sure, sometimes the reason we know nothing about whatever is because it really doesn’t hold any relevance for us…but I suspect that’s the case far less often than we might think; if presented in the right way, almost anything can be fascinating. Take “Go”. (I know. If you’re like me, you’re all, “Ummm… that’s some sort of… uh, board   game , right?” —and thus ends the sum total of your knowledge on that .) But wait… it can actually be pretty darn interesting… especially when made sort of futuristic-sci-fi-happenin’-right-the-hell-NOW , as in the surprisingly-engrossing 2017 documentary, AlphaGo (currently available to stream on Netflix). _______________________________________________________ Take a little tech company, whose founders have been working on Artificial Intelligence applications—namely, one known ...