Alan N. Shapiro, Technologist and Futurist

Blog and text archive about media theory, science fiction theory, future design, social choreography, Computer Science 2.0, new media art, robots and androids, Star Trek, The Prisoner, Jean Baudrillard, Albert Camus, Michel Foucault, and Marshall McLuhan

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More Baseball Cactus League Photos

June 17th, 2011 in Category: Baseball

It don't matter if you're black or white. Thanks to the courage of Jackie Robinson.
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Cactus League Baseball: San Francisco Giants vs. Oakland Athletics

June 10th, 2011 in Category: Baseball

It was early March on planet Earth. In any of the other places where I have hung out during my apparently long yet in fact rather brief life so far as coder and Richard Daystrom wannabe – Frankfurt, Berlin, New York, Boston, Ithaca, Bologna, Zurich – it would be freezing cold in the middle of winter.
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New York Yankees Baseball (story)

October 25th, 2010 in Category: Baseball, Creative Writing

"Todd and I had had a baseball Jones for months. When game day arrived we jumped into Todd's Chevy and tooled into town for the Yankee game on Saturday night. We were psyched. On the way we were shooting the breeze about the Yankee game the night before, which we had watched at Todd's house on the tube."
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After Ebbets Field and Shea Stadium: CitiField

October 14th, 2010 in Category: Baseball, New American Studies

I went to my first two games at CitiField in September 2010. The Mets won both games, beating up on a minor league team, the Pittsburgh Pirates. It was part of a four-game sweep.
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Bayerischer Rundfunk programme on Alan N. Shapiro

June 20th, 2010 in Category: Android Data, Androids & Artificial Life, Baseball, Car of the Future, Casino Gambling, Dance Theory, Hans-Peter Dürr, Humanities Informatics, Rethinking Science, Star Trek

On June 13, 2010, Bayerischer Rundfunk broadcast a 38-minute programme (mostly in German) about the ideas and projects of Alan N. Shapiro. The show was produced by Florian Fricke. It includes a segment on the social choreography ideas and practice of Alan's close friend Steve Valk.
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The Revolution will not be Televised, it will be led by Radical Software

April 13th, 2010 in Category: Baseball, Casino Gambling, Humanities Informatics

In my story “Betting on Longshots,” I describe how I won $3000 in the casino on the Lido in Venice, Italy when I was 24 years old, starting from nearly nothing. If I had not won that money, maybe my European wanderings would have come to an end, and I would have gone back to New York and become a dentist.
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Baseball in the Information Age

April 13th, 2010 in Category: Baseball, Information Society

I am sitting in the loge reserved section at a baseball stadium which has not yet been renamed to BankOne Ballpark, UMAX Coliseum, Qualcomm Stadium, 3Com Park, or Citi Field.