A chip in everything: build me, share me
Or what about a chip in every Lego brick, or every nail? Build me You tell your AI what you’re building later, and it crawls… Read More »A chip in everything: build me, share me
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A chip in everything: find me
Here are the sorts of things that might happen when there’s a chip in everything, and all the things we own can talk to each… Read More »A chip in everything: find me
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
Giants – all sizes
Whose shoulders are you standing on? Greats and GOATs There are giants who loom large for us all: the Greats who laid the foundations and… Read More »Giants – all sizes
Old year’s resolutions
What can you tick off already? Good work on those. What do you need to quit – stop doing, stop trying to do, draw a… Read More »Old year’s resolutions
Governor Jerry Brown, c1976: an approach to protest
I would be part of the entourage and we’d go to some public event… and there outside the event would be the usual protesters about… Read More »Governor Jerry Brown, c1976: an approach to protest
The Gift
Everything changes if you can see the thing you’re doing as a gift. Doing it as a gift transforms the thing you don’t want to… Read More »The Gift
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
Scrapbook: Clay Shirky, Niall Ferguson – a spot of network theory
Speaking of networks, here’s a way into network theory – a few videos from Clay Shirky that make a good introduction: Ten Truths About Social… Read More »Scrapbook: Clay Shirky, Niall Ferguson – a spot of network theory
Ways in: ravelling the network
Interface A discipline, culture or scene is a network: a mesh of people, things, ideas and ways of doing things. It might be tightly defined,… Read More »Ways in: ravelling the network