John Perry Barlow
Imagine a place where trespassers leave no footprints, where goods can be stolen infinite number of times and yet remain in the possession of their original owners, where business you never heard of...
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The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer. What did they look like? Ships? Motorcycles? Were the circuits like freeways? I kept...
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The Life Metaphor
I've been doing a lot of reading, particularly James Gleick's The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood, and trying to apply some of the things that flip around on my Kindle to explain the larger...
View ArticleRoger Sperry
Ideas cause ideas and help evolve new ideas. They interact with each other and with other mental forces in the same brain, in neighboring braings, and thanks to global communication, in far distant...
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The Life Metaphor II
Suddenly there were wires routing the life form - where once everything was regulated by locality of the little organisms, by a sphere of influence, now every little organism connected to the wires...
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The Real Secrets To Social Media Marketing
Over the years I've written in the vein of this post so often that it flows freely from this keyboard once more. In fact, had this blog not been repurposed twice I probably wouldn't bother with the...
View ArticleGene Wolf
The brown book I carry says there is nothing stranger than to explore a city wholly different from all those one knows, since to do so is to explore a second and unsuspected self. I have found a thing...
View ArticleDouglas Coupland
TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public.quotequotationtvtelevisioninternetstupidity— Douglas CouplandJPod (2006)
View ArticleEric Schmidt
We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous...
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Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations, invariably result from misunderstandings in the broadest interpretation of this term. Misunderstandings are always caused by the...
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Code is Ethics: Part I
It's long past time that there was a discussion on Ethics within the context of software development, particularly since it is no longer the isolated area of expertise that it was prior to, and in the...
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