“DAVIS” by Panun Bali and Blake Moss
Our screenplay is here! When deciding on a final project, we were immediately drawn to the idea of writing a screenplay (titled: DAVIS). Part of the project was to synthesize concepts from different weeks of the course, so our screenplay for a short film covers...
Grandpa’s Apple Tree–Science Fiction by Yehong Deng and Yuming Liu
Painting by Paul Ranson, Apple Tree with Red Fruit, Museum of Fine Arts, Huston. (1) Josh pushed Pedro and woke him up from an afternoon nap. He pointed his left index finger to the screen projector and showed Pedro the new mind map he just finished. Ten years ago,...
“Recipes for Disaster” by Fatou Dioum, Tim Granzow, Shane Kim, and Grace Wagner
Recipes for Disaster is the beginner’s survival guide to coping with the end of the world. We recognize that no matter how the world ends, humans will need to eat to survive. In this first volume, which addresses the culinary constraints placed upon humanity in the...
Earthworks: A Short Interactive Experience
Earthworks: A Short Interactive Experience We are but ants in the eyes of a greater intelligence. Throughout the length of this course, one particular issue became exceptionally obvious: it’s very, very hard to convince people, even extremely smart and well educated...
The Hack to Understanding the Colonial Pipeline Incident
For our project, we decided to focus on something highly relevant - the hacking of the Colonial Pipeline that took place just last month. We wrote an in-depth opinion piece that both investigates the causes and consequences of the hack, and presents a vision for how...
The Doomsday Podcast: How Will Civilization End?
How will civilization end? audio For our project we chose to record a podcast in which we debated which of the existential threats that we have discussed in class is most likely to lead to the end of the world. Jason Sheppard thinks it might be Nuclear Annihilation,...
For our final project, the three of us (Max Adelman, Scott Rothschild, and Vito Smolyak) decided to do a podcast on the causes, impacts, and solutions of anthropogenic climate change. We chose this topic due to our mutual interest in the material...
“Humanity Must Walk and Chew Gum at the Same Time” by Madalyn Chapman
Click here to download Madalyn Chapman's op-ed, titled "Humanity Must Walk and Chew Gum at the Same Time." MOTIVATION AND REASONING I knew from the start of class when the project was introduced to us that I wanted to do something that had to do with environmental...
The Pandemic Game
Motivation My motivation to create an interactive game on a blog was to offer a fun and educational way of describing the many disasters we are currently facing, and the potential for these threats to become existential to humanity. I believe it is important to...
Will We Flourish?: A Choose-Our-Shared-Future
I created a piece of hypertext fiction, tentatively titled Will We Flourish? A Choose-Our-Shared-Future. (click to read!) Hypertext fiction allows the reader to affect the narrative they are reading, similar to choose-your-own-adventure gamebooks but with little to no...