“Not only is the delivery drone program happening, but according to the CEO, it’s well underway. ‘The Prime Air team is already flight testing our 5th and 6th generation aerial vehicles, and we are in the design phase on generations 7 and 8,’ he writes.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
New Rules For New Technology – We Need ‘Em
“The hybridization of ourselves and our technologies, and the political and economic struggle around this process, threatens to destabilize some qualities of our intimate lives that are also among the core foundations of our civil and moral society: freedom, trust, empathy, forgiveness, forgetting, attention.”
Suddenly, Everyone Loves Really Old Photos – And Here’s Why
“A photograph really is a frozen fragment of time. Not even the fastest, most gifted artists or the most sensually specific novelists have ever captured the kind of incidental realities a photograph dumbly records – the creases in the uniform of the last Napoleonic veteran, his paunch and sidelong glance and white whiskers – or the Brighton Swimming Club in 1863, naked except for their trunks and top hats.”
What Does The Real Philomena Think Of Judi Dench?
“When they suggested Judi Dench, I couldn’t believe it. I nearly fell off my chair. She’s famous all over the world, you know! I was over the moon. A lot of my friends thought I’d gone soft, because they didn’t believe that it was true. I was so glad to be able to say, ‘Actually, look, it is true.'”
Why Irish Novelist Colm Tóibín Doesn’t Want To Be Called A Storyteller
“A particular problem with English people: they seem to think that everyone in Ireland is a writer, and very few of us are writers. And that somehow or other writing comes naturally to us, which it doesn’t. So people love saying to you, “‘h, you Irish—you’re such MAR-velous storytellers, all of you!'”
What Does LBJ Playwright Robert Schenkkan Think About Political Power?
“LBJ was certainly aware of the vagaries of power. He believed that it was important to do everything you could and to use everyone around you in order to further your goals. But at the end of the day there would come a reckoning and power would recede and you would lose your effectiveness. And it didn’t matter how good a politician you were, it was just impossible to control the game all the time”
Costuming James Franco For Broadway
“He’s trying to operate under the radar, so he has to appear like everybody else, like he could fill any post at any time. … There’s nothing remarkable about him.”
The San Diego Opera Just Gave Its Last Performance (We’re Pretty Sure)
“After a three-week battle that convulsed the community here and subjected its once revered opera company to widespread derision and accusations of mismanagement — Ian D. Campbell, its general and artistic director, was nearly booed off the stage when he stepped out to introduce ‘Don Quixote’ this month on opening night — the board of directors on Friday reaffirmed its intention to close down”
This Guy Saved His Local Bookshop, But What’s Next In A World Dominated By Amazon?
“Recent figures showed the number of independent bookshops in the UK has dropped below 1,000 for the first time; the rise of Amazon and e-books, and the decline of many British high streets has pushed the figure down to just 987.”
What Won Big At The Oliviers? Small Theatre, Not The West End
“There is something emancipating about doing a show outside the West End where you don’t think you have to hit the jackpot every time. You’re not panicking about whether you can fill the theatre and there’s not a hysterical pressure there sometimes is when you do a show in the West End and there’s a lot of cash and reputation hanging on it.”