Return of the Babe
It began inside a facility owned by Major League Baseball when an AI system called Ultimate Knowledge had been fed every recorded pitch, swing, injury, biomarker, and biometric twitch since the days of Babe Ruth. They wanted the ultimate superstar. Ultimate Knowledge did not draft a player. Ultimate Knowledge designed one. Geneticists were given a […]
Mayhem Gulch, First Trout
She wasn’t big, and probably not wild, but she was mine, and the difference between fishing and catching came home to my senses like a lightning strike. I took her picture as she lay across my wet hand, slimed with protective epidermal mucus. Then I quickly released her back to her stream. And just like […]