Computers marching towards us
Computers have been on a steady march toward us. At first, computers were housed in distant air-conditioned basements, then they moved to nearby small rooms,… Read More »Computers marching towards us
books
A reading list for 2019
Here’s a DC-related hitlist for the first part of 2019… images link to Amazon UK. The Invisible Killer: The Rising Global Threat of Air Pollution… Read More »A reading list for 2019
The new possible
My sister (let’s call her Sharky) bought me a book for Christmas. Sharky lives in Argentina. She bought the book from a shop in the… Read More »The new possible
Scrapbook: Niall Ferguson on culture, text-for-profit, libraries, search and literacy
Niall Ferguson was speaking at the Long Now Foundation, responding to a question from Stewart Brand about how ads and the profit-motive influenced the nature… Read More »Scrapbook: Niall Ferguson on culture, text-for-profit, libraries, search and literacy
Deep literacy: Kevin Kelly on more than reading
… producing books with ease on Gutenberg’s press did not fully unleash text. Real literacy also required a long list of innovations and techniques that… Read More »Deep literacy: Kevin Kelly on more than reading
Network opportunities
One telephone – in the whole world – is useless. Who would you call? The more telephones there are – and especially the more telephones… Read More »Network opportunities
Anything yet: never a better time
When should you start? The internet feels saturated with apps, platforms, devices, and more than enough content to demand our attention for the next million… Read More »Anything yet: never a better time
Show me the money
Love it or loathe it, you’ve got to know where the money’s going to come from, and where it all goes. Get it right from… Read More »Show me the money
Stan Lee (1922-2018) – What If?
Stan Lee was brilliant and prolific. We know him for Spiderman, the X-men, the Avengers, the Fantastic Four, Black Panther… for being the driving force… Read More »Stan Lee (1922-2018) – What If?
Counting stamps
Examining the economics of the mail, he [Charles Babbage] pursued a counter-intuitive insight, that the significant cost comes not from the physical transport of paper… Read More »Counting stamps