14 Comments
User's avatar
User's avatar
Comment deleted
Sep 17, 2023
Comment deleted
Expand full comment
Kate Granger's avatar

Hi John, I only came across this comment by luck. For some reason, I can't find it in my notifications. I find AI fascinating, particularly how it's being used in my market sector. We have the technology to create slaughter bots capable of flying through the streets we walk, monitoring social media, judging when a person is guilty of a prescribed crime (prescribed by whom?), finding that person using facial recognition and attacking them in a swarm of tiny drones carrying small shaped charges. They say the technologies haven't been assembled together for that purpose yet but I wonder how close we are to that.

Expand full comment
User's avatar
Comment deleted
Sep 19, 2023
Comment deleted
Expand full comment
Kate Granger's avatar

I think social scoring might be a great Sin Street plot arc for the future. I see algorithms being developed at Universities with the single intent of gathering human behavioral data and converting it into risk assessed actionable insights. Minority Report, here we come.

Expand full comment
User's avatar
Comment deleted
Sep 17, 2023
Comment deleted
Expand full comment
Kate Granger's avatar

Hi John. Thank you for another exciting review. More in the way soon.

Expand full comment
Sissitrix's avatar

Far out, yes, but not totally implausible. This is exactly why I love to read your review of each article. As you understand you influence my drawings and when I read you I secretly take a side to give you rich or wrong. What will happen to Sissitrix's technology in the next episode? (I knew you'd like this pickup.)

Expand full comment
Martin's avatar

Another superb episode, with great illustrations Sissitrix. Intrigue builds upon intrigue and the stakes keep,getting higher. Well done Kate and Sissitrix.

Expand full comment
Kate Granger's avatar

Hi Martin. I feel as though our Sin City is coming alive. The artwork and words combined build such a fabulous picture in the mind.

Expand full comment
Sissitrix's avatar

Martin what a pleasure it is to read your joy one episode after another.

Expand full comment
RyGuy's avatar

A plot twist within a plot twist within another plot. Kate, you and Sissitrix are just brilliant

Expand full comment
Kate Granger's avatar

I've said it before RyGuy. This is the most productive and gratifying collaboration I've ever enjoyed. Thank you for reading us.

Expand full comment
Sissitrix's avatar

I'm delighted to read your comment, stay tuned, it's not going to get any better!

Expand full comment
RyGuy's avatar

I'm here for it, good, bad, ugly and psychotic

Expand full comment
Kate Granger's avatar

I feel Sin Street is given life. The artworks are so perfectly consistent week after week that they build a picture of life in our noir universe. Anyone like noir style jazz... maybe try this on YouTube! Intrigue and Moral Ambiguity - What a great name for a Wine Bar!

https://youtu.be/PEI2zet48Uc?si=_Wx5II9PU5BECt_H

Expand full comment
Martin's avatar

That would be a great musical accompaniment to Sin Street.

Expand full comment
Kate Granger's avatar

I was listening to that playlist today while writing. I often listen to piano jazz or the banjo style from Hitchhikers guide or Firefly. It’s great ambient music for writing.

Expand full comment