I became interested in Ars Nova's story last year, while working on a profile of Billy Eichner, whose hyper, meta live talk show "Creation Nation," with Robin Lord Taylor, was one of Ars Nova's early successes.
Also new is Hyper Training, a feature which lets players continue to improve their Pokemon beyond level 100, by improving individual strengths and then training up your Pokemon through in-game character Mr. Hyper, who lives in the new Alola region that functions as the Sun/Moon world setting.
Bianca takes a very close look at these digital habits, and especially the consequences on young people of living hyper-connected, plugged-in, always-on lives.
The notion of unplugging and recharging is even more important because we are living in a hyper, hyper-connected world.
Dante is a hyper-intelligent border collie living in a city where even the availability of liver cookies from specialist dog bakeries cannot disguise the fact that Manhattan is possibly the most inappropriate place on earth for a hyper-intelligent border collie to live.
PPura vida" is a phrase used in various sporting venues throughout the Spanish-speaking world to refer to those hyper-oxygenated moments when living and sport merge perfectly and everything inconsequential and bothersome falls away.
The caliphate is supposed to return its denizens to ultra-conservative, hyper-traditional ways of living, yet it relies on modern technologies and weaponry to wage and spread jihad.
She lists the serious physical and emotional effects that stalking victims can suffer: "Victims may become hypersensitive, hyper vigilant and live on adrenaline, always watching behind them and doing 360-degree risk assessments of every situation".
"We are living in a hyper-connected world," he wrote.
Not because I endorse the idea of living like some hyper-rational Vulcan, but because computing algorithms could be a surprisingly useful way to embrace the messy compromises of real, non-Vulcan life.
But today more than ever, from advertorials to social media and beyond, we are living in a hyper-mediated world where all news is not necessarily true news.
