Xbox hardware revenue grows 13% as Microsoft gaming reports best ever Q1

Xbox hardware revenue has grown by 13 percent, as Microsoft gaming reports its best ever Q1 financial results. Yesterday the company published its financial figures for its first quarter up to 30th September. Gaming revenue has overall grown “slightly”, while Xbox content and services revenue dropped by 3 percent due to declines in first and…

Everything dies, including information

Everything dies: people, machines, civilizations. Perhaps we can find some solace in knowing that all the meaningful things we’ve learned along the way will survive. But even knowledge has a life span. Documents fade. Art goes missing. Entire libraries and collections can face quick and unexpected destruction.  Surely, we’re at a stage technologically where we…

Never say die

Hi. How are you? I have some news. You’re going to die. We’re all going to die.  I’ve been thinking about this not only because we’ve been putting this issue, the Mortality issue, together but also because I’ve hit one of those arbitrary milestones in life. Which is to say I turn 50 this month. …