Monica Byrne, author of “Parasocial,” shares what inspired her September Future Tense Fiction story about what goes wrong when a celebrity decides to license his image to a hologram start-up in an interview with editor Mia Armstrong.
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Can an AI Manage the “Beautiful Game”?
Sports teams are turning to artificial intelligence to gain a competitive advantage. Will they alienate their fans in the process?
Bonum Certamen
Would you trust artificial intelligence to coach your favorite sports team? This month’s Future Tense Fiction story brings us straight to the pitch, where a soccer team is battling its way toward the Premier League with the help of an unusual, technologically enabled manager.
A Lion Roars in Longyearbyen
Following the mass extinction of most species, the animals that fill a zoo in a future Arctic metropolis are lab-made—with one exception: an aging lion. When the lion escapes in the middle of the city’s Christmas festivities, a complex hunt ensues.
The Dawn of the Synthetic Age
An expert in environmental philosophy and wildlife recovery responds to Margrét Helgadóttir’s “A Lion Roars in Longyearbyen.”