5th July: Sim Life, AI vs Music, and after cloud comes?

Chris Chinchilla
5 min readJul 5, 2024

This issue contains a good dose of , tech trends, and edge technologies, so let’s dive in.

A chinchilla playing Sim City is not quite what I got, but thanks, Firefly!

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Chris Chinchilla

Writer, podcaster, and video maker covering technology, the creative process, board and roleplay game development, fiction, and even more.