Category Archives: science fiction

Observing the New Normal Through the Lens of Science Fiction

Posted on May 14, 2020 by Bart Leahy

A while back, I wrote a post stating that all I needed to know about tech writing I learned from science fiction. While that might be a wee bit of a stretch, SF helped me develop the right mindset for … Continue reading →

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Making a New Normal, Revisited

Posted on April 20, 2020 by Bart Leahy

Okay, so let’s assume you’re getting through the virus crisis with your job intact as opposed to the alternative. What will the “new normal” look like? Today is all about random speculation with a heaping helping of experience thrown in … Continue reading →

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It’s Getting Kind of Haptic: Technical Writing in the Age of Tactile Interfaces

Posted on August 22, 2019 by Bart Leahy

Recently I went to the Secrets of the Empire virtual reality (VR) experience (you can read about that here). It was a game environment mixing VR and physical elements. While there was a brief script introducing this team-based, first-person-shooter game, for … Continue reading →

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Future Challenges in Space Writing

Posted on July 29, 2019 by Bart Leahy

As promised, today I’ll take on the subject of future issues in technical writing in a space context. This war born out of a Facebook discussion with my former thesis advisor, Karla Kitalong, who’s now teaching at Michigan Technological University. … Continue reading →

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Technical Writing in Space

Posted on July 25, 2019 by Bart Leahy

Updated 7/25/19, 11:18 a.m. Following a discussion about future topics in space-related technical communication, I started to wonder about how tech comm is handled in space NOW. What followed was a fascinating discussion with a friend in the astronaut training … Continue reading →

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