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Axie Nation On Fire: Burning Down or Phoenix Rising?

Axie Nation On Fire: Burning Down or Phoenix Rising? Axie Infinity is something that you’ve probably heard of, whether or not you’re deep into crypto. It’s made such a name for itself in the gaming and crypto industries in such a short time that you must have at least seen articles about it. However, it’s more than just a game or a crypto coin, it’s a burgeoning digital nation state of people from various countries, ethnicities and economic statuses. The problem, though, is that this new nation

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Things Always Take More Time than you Think They Will

Things always take longer than you think they will. This phenomenon is called Hofstadter’s Law. It states that things take longer than you think they will, even if you think they're going to take longer than you think they will. In fact, even if you're aware that things are going to take longer than you think they will and even longer than that, they'll probably still take longer!

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“The Future” is Now

Black Mirror… the name of the show is so apt. It holds up a mirror to society that isn’t afraid to show our dark side. In my opinion, all truly worthwhile science fiction accomplishes one thing amongst various mixes of other goals: it displays a current issue in a slightly exaggerated way that will shock people firstly as a concept in and of itself and then secondly as they realize that the society they live in is only a little different than that exaggerated example. This week’s blog prompt has asked us to pick a specific episode of Black Mirror to analyze, and I have chosen “15 Million Merits” because of the raw power of Bing’s speech near the end of the episode which completely blew me away when I first watched it. I have chosen to argue that...