A Profound Journey
Est. 1995
Articles published in 2026.
I took a Vision Pro into the Norfolk marshland with no mast and no Wi-Fi, and asked a 4,096-token on-device model questions about Douglas Adams. How hydrate-fm wraps a tiny model in a context engine, what a hydration pack actually is, and the arithmetic behind the demo.
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Spielberg comes home to the alien picture with Emily Blunt, John Williams and a head full of his own back catalogue. Beautifully made, generous, and then it cheats you at the door. 6.5/10.
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Travis Knight drags a 1980s toy line into proper science-fantasy with a real world behind it, and the result is far more confident than four decades of false starts had any right to produce. 8/10.
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Din Djarin and his small green ward make the jump from streaming to the big screen, and the space-western tone survives the trip intact. Familiar, warm, and built for the rewatch. 8/10.
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Andy Weir's problem-solving science fiction reaches the screen with Ryan Gosling alone in space, and the result is the best thing the genre has produced since The Martian. 9/10.
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This site is about Travel and Technology. Destinations, travelogues and reports. By Seamus Waldron.
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This site is about Travel and Technology. Destinations, travelogues and reports. By Seamus Waldron.
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Timur Bekmambetov hands a murder trial to an artificial intelligence and gives the accused ninety minutes to clear himself. The premise is borrowed, the format is risky, and on the things I value it works better than the critics will allow. 8/10.
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I taught a row of language models to lie to each other, then watched what happened. TraitorBot is a research project about The Traitors, the game theory under it, and what AI does when you make it betray people for a living.
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A Profound Journey has been online since 1995. For the last twenty years it barely changed. This is the rebuild: same writing, new foundations.
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