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Believing we have all the technology we’ll ever need, we seek to draw attention to its destructive side effects. This seems foolish… —Neal Stephenson, Innovation Starvation It is the first day of a new month. Does that mean anything? Not really, but it’s a convenient thing to kick me in to writing again. Can we [...]
[Keywords: doubt, imagination, Neal Stephenson, optimism, technology] [No comments] [Permanent link]
Kevin Kelly, in The European: Most of the problems today have been generated by technology, and most future problems will be generated by technology as well. I am so technocentric that I say: The solution to technological problems is more technology. Here’s a tangible example: If I throw around some really bad ideas in this [...]
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Monday morning. A weekend of much work and little writing, in which I thought (yet again) to chuck the blog, chuck the computer, and return to Moleskine and ink. I didn’t; I just went to work. And two comments on my last post, in as many days — I actually had no idea that anyone [...]
[Keywords: I.T., In support of I.T., luddism, technology, Wordsworth] [No comments] [Permanent link]
I bought this watch when I started working at IBM, because it is such an archetype of The Digital Watch, and I like to be reminded of the Future. Some pointless facts about the F-91W: Water Resistant; Micro Light; Daily Alarm; 1/100 second digital stopwatch: Measuring capacity: 59:59.99; Measuring modes: Net time, split time, 1st-2nd [...]
[Keywords: Casio, F-91W, technology, timekeeping, watches] [No comments] [Permanent link]
Oh weary thing! Oh listless drudgery! Oh the stupid work we make for ourselves!! Oh!… Here I sit, on a cool spring morning, with nothing at all to worry about; I am happy. So why-oh-why-oh-why should I sit down to work at some sloppy, good-for-nothing code that purports to “record, display and analyze genealogical data”?! [...]
[Keywords: Drupal, genealogy, technology, Work] [No comments] [Permanent link]
In which I work on the catalogue for the workshop exhibition and do no woodworking but lots of thinking.
In which I work on the catalogue for the workshop exhibition and do no woodworking but lots of thinking.
[Keywords: 2XXFM, dichotomy, InDesign, podcasts, radio, technology, University, Walking With Water, Woodworking, world wide web] [One comment] [Permanent link]
