Tag Archives: future

Post 2012…

When I was 7, I was taken into a special class where we were asked to make predictions about 2040. The only thing I remember is that I thought that there would be flying cars and moving sidewalks. That was also the first year that I interacted with the green terminal of a computer. I [...]
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The global warming narrative

Let me see. How do I say this without seeming, or being, a fool? For a while now, I have been deeply uncomfortable with the talk surrounding global warming. It’s not that I think that global warming is untrue. It’s not that I would prefer to die of thirst on Morningside Island, surrounded by New [...]
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Constructing the tool that constructs

(I wrote this a while ago, but in the midst of my server malfunctions, it was only ever saved as a draft. Publish or perish? False choice. Everything is saved:) What is deep thinking? What has it become? Sometimes I want to put all my ideas out there, and if I have the right interface, [...]
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1st thoughts re: blog vs. notebook

[The following was typed from a notebook, then edited w/AbiWord, then pasted to the blog. Hyperlinks added at that point. If the post were composed online, the hyperlink choices may have guided more than they have] In the following, I use the word ’cause’. I wasn’t that cautious while I was using it, so feel [...]
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CSS and Electric Sheep

The web is very different now than it was 5 or 10 years ago. The web will be very different again. Soon. And then it will be very different again. Probably sooner. This kind of thing has been said by others, notably Kevin Kelly, who said parts of it very well, I thought. One of [...]
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