We admit, when we cooked up the concept for our Interactive issue – Better Living Through Binary – the tongue may have been planted ever so gently in cheek. We are, after all, one of the last left standing in the dead-tree brigade, so a somewhat smirking attitude toward technology is to be expected. But we’ve been surprised, even inspired, by the stories you’ll find in these pages. Okay, maybe a little alarmed, too, by some of the more Philip K. Dickian-sounding advances, which is why we haven’t entirely removed tongue from cheek. Then again, if you can’t laugh, you might as well be dead, right?
This article appears in March 5 • 2010.
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A graduate of the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas, Kimberley has written about film, books, and pop culture for The Austin Chronicle since 2000. She was named Editor of the Chronicle in 2016; she previously served as the paper’s Managing Editor, Screens Editor, Books Editor, and proofreader. Her work has been awarded by the Association of Alternative Newsmedia for excellence in arts criticism, team reporting, and special section (Best of Austin). The Austin Alliance for Women...
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