Captures a particular high energy techno experience of being on a computer. As a software dev I like it in the background of flow state coding sessions.

The movie shouts at you to chase the feeling of being alive. Our lives are now on the computer - as society progresses, more work is done sat at a desk and done in the mind. We are less embodied which is a stark difference from really anytime before the computer. Along with this, a crisis of meaning has been spreading across the world at the same time as globalisation and the rise of secularism. Fight Club captures this feeling. I like Nietzsche's ideas that we should attempt to think deeply, question absolutely everything and come out the other side with solid values in order to live in the best way possible. And for better or worse, Tyler lives completely as himself.

This is both a conversation between modes of living and whether society is currently sleepwalking through life. The viewer is left with a question - can living be watching the sunrise and enjoying a comfortable cup of coffee when you wake up? Or does truly living take a more intense, uncomfortable but thrilling form?

A sci-fi bombardment of new ideas - the book takes you through humanity's path to the singularity. I enjoy this book because I can see so many of the currently fictional concepts coming to life in the near future. Reputation markets, people living in simulations, and ddos-ing legal frameworks are all seen in some small glimpse today. The writer published this in 2005, but the main character lives a life that is technically possible now. Through constant communication with AIs he is able to stay on the "moment". And with the way I work with AIs now, I can already start to see them as an extension of myself. It is increasingly becoming the case that imagination is the only limit to what you can create.