The Hero’s Journey (Wherever I May Roam)
Rover, Wanderer …And the road becomes my brideI have stripped of all but prideSo in her I do confideAnd she keeps me satisfiedGives me all… Read More »The Hero’s Journey (Wherever I May Roam)
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Technology (17): Speeding up the S-Curve – Azeem Azhar and Hau Thai-Tang on the accelerating electrification of automobiles
The Exponential View is usually worth a listen, and this was a really good interview. Here’s a highlight: AZEEM AZHAR: … let’s look at the… Read More »Technology (17): Speeding up the S-Curve – Azeem Azhar and Hau Thai-Tang on the accelerating electrification of automobiles
Writing and Reading as Technology (7): History’s First Mass Literacy Campaign?
I haven’t been able to find a literacy campaign earlier than King Sejong the Great of Korea‘s 1443-1444 Hunminjeongeum (“The Correct/Proper Sounds for the Instruction… Read More »Writing and Reading as Technology (7): History’s First Mass Literacy Campaign?
In which we meet an AI
In case you missed it, OpenAI’s GPT3 is now open to the public. In the interests of learning by diving in I’ve signed up and… Read More »In which we meet an AI
On Getting-Rid-of-Capital-ism
The use of the word Capitalism to describe what goes on in free market economies – usually in opposition to Socialism or Communism – has… Read More »On Getting-Rid-of-Capital-ism
Shooting Stars
Dedicated (with apologies) to email subscribers who received a three word “Constellation” a few hours ago… …the Seriph, in his bijou wildernessette, has just riffled… Read More »Shooting Stars
Writing and Reading as Technology (6): Stop Press. Who invented moveable type?
Not Gutenberg Gutenberg put several important pieces together in a new way in 1439(ish) when he built what most of us probably think of as… Read More »Writing and Reading as Technology (6): Stop Press. Who invented moveable type?
Technology (16): Clustering Technologies, Clustering People (v2)
Sorry to email subscribers receiving this twice due to a scheduling error. The extra bit at the bottom is interesting! The previous post in this… Read More »Technology (16): Clustering Technologies, Clustering People (v2)
Technology (15): Jerry Neumann on technological systems and constellations of innovations
This extract comes from a much longer piece on Jerry Neumann’s blog, Reaction Wheel. Highly recommended. A Technological System is a set of technologies that… Read More »Technology (15): Jerry Neumann on technological systems and constellations of innovations
Writing and Reading as Technology (5): Literacy as Infrastructure for Thought
The development of spoken language was humankind’s first great networking technology.* Speech allows us to communicate thought and to think far better than we could… Read More »Writing and Reading as Technology (5): Literacy as Infrastructure for Thought