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Like you and me, Brian Eno has spent way too much time on Zoom lately. But unlike us, he’s taking steps to create a better solution to group video communication.
“I’m working on a project with some Dutch friends to make the next generation of this kind of communication,” he says during a (what else?) Zoom call. “We’ve come up with some interesting ideas for an etiquette of how it works a new set of assumptions, really. We’re hoping to launch it next summer as an open source thing where it’s available for anybody to improve it for us.”
They also shared a brief description to go with the announcement. Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend Eileen is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Eileen and Simon are still young – but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart. They have sex, they worry about sex, they worry about their friendships and the world they live in.
Normal People‘s Sally Rooney Has A New Story For You To Get Lost In
Normal Peopleallowed us to lose ourselves in the a sexy-but-still-sad romance.
Luckily, Sally Rooney, the Irish author of
Normal People, the book the show was based on, has more sexy sadness in store for us. In September, she will release her third novel,
Beautiful World, Where Are You (a perfectly depressing title). The story follows four young people, in surprise, surprise Dublin and a nearby town, “as they navigate the pressures of work and relationships against the backdrop of political turmoil and fears about their economic futures.” According to The New York Times, we will get another complex relationship like the one Rooney captivated us with in