Michael Darvall
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Quietly getting on with life and hopefully writing something worth reading occasionally.
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The Fall of the Digital Gavel
2050, Monday November 28th, LC Station 17 Programmer 17 eased back from her work-station and stretched, then rubbed her eyes. The role of Legislative Computist was highly respected and highly paid, but it came with intense demands to operate at the very highest levels in both law and computing. She stretched again, called the amin assistant to get her another coffee, then bent back to her work.
By Michael Darvallabout a year ago in Futurism
A Dilemma of Wives
It was eight years since Kabul fell to the Taliban. Back then his name was Alistair. He’d been in Afghanistan almost twenty years, working on construction projects. He’d thought about catching one of the evac planes back to Australia, but really, why bother? What was there back ‘home’ for him? Just a failed marriage and a daughter’s grave. Besides, Afghanistan had gotten under his skin; a hard country with hard people, but who found joy in small, transient pleasures.
By Michael Darvall4 years ago in Fiction
The Bitter Taste of Company
I met her in the little café hidden away down Serle’s Walk. She came in for a coffee and I was sitting there, at the table nearest the door, staring at the menu. I was going to order the apple pie, at least I thought I was, I mean it was a bit pricey maybe, but how could you go past it?
By Michael Darvall5 years ago in Fiction
Fairy Tales of Truth
We live in a practical world. It’s very much geared towards the key pillars of the workplace; our lifestyle, our past-times, our education, they’re all very… vocational. The modern curriculum is heavily in favour of the STEM subjects – Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths. Other areas such as the Humanities, Arts, and Social Studies are often seen as fluffy, impractical subjects, Friday afternoon fillers in the classroom, even though they’re the keys to critical thinking. And critical thinking is the key to figuring out who we are as individuals, as people, as a society, and what sort of society we want.
By Michael Darvall5 years ago in Humans
