Author: Heather Flyte

Don’t talk about tech and NOT credit authors

This short section of The Atlantic Daily has the following sentence: “The term metaverse was coined in a 1992 science-fiction novel titled Snow Crash. (The book also helped popularize the term avatar, to refer to digital selves.)” The book, not Neal Stephenson, the person who happened to author the book, but the book. If we want to talk about the future and technology and don’t …

Welp, I’m back

Sorry about the break. I really did think I could write a blog post about each day of the written portion of my comprehensive exams. Friends, I could not. I had no idea how much energy that was going to take out of me, including the one-hour commute each way. The day I wrote 5000 words, I slept the sleep of the dead. But, I’ve …