Lauren McCarthy takes on Silicon Valley optimism
What a kingdom of apps and tech obsession hath wrought.
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The Museum of Parallel Art turns art appreciation into a bonding exercise
Bringing siblings together since, um, 2014.
Boston’s development scene spans the history of videogames
We talk to devs from Harmonix, Moonshot and the MIT Media Labs.
The Theorizing the Web conference offers academic thrills and chills this weekend
Since you’re reading Kill Screen, your conference-going mind is surely tuned in to Twofivesix. However, if you’re in NYC and interested in the art and science of theorizing the web, the aptly named Theorizing The Web conference is going on Friday and Saturday (March 1st and 2nd, 2013), at the CUNY G
The end of the (online) world as we know it
The prevailing mood around tech is that there is no limit to the power and size of the Internet. Humanity’s most impactful creation since, well, probably the automobile has spread so far and so wide, that according to a recent piece in Salon, network-enabled gadgets (smartphones, tablets, computers)