Causal Islands
Game designer, media artist, computer scientist, and educator Ramsey Nasser will be giving a talk at Causal Islands titled "How to Write a Joke That Will Still Be Funny in Two Thousand Years." Here's the description of his talk:
Mar 8, 2023 at 7:39pmWeb
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"I come from a centuries-old village, that is part of a millennia-old culture, that is nestled within a million-year-old mountain range on the western coast of The Levant.

I am stressed out that the Macromedia Flash games I made as a teenager no longer run after 20 short years.

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Building systems that are long-lived and useful is hard to do, but I worry we’ve stopped trying. Or, worse, that we’ve never really been able to try at all.
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I’ve spent the past few years researching the cultural baggage of computing and organizing alternative models of software labor.
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This talk builds on that experience to explore what a robust and sustainable future of our craft might look like and steps we can take in those directions today." #causalislands2023 #futureofcomputing