Ok I just had my first hard-core experience in Wave. Things got pretty nuts when three of us found ourselves updating at the same time. It was sort of a “breaking-in” session for all three of us and it didn’t take long to accelerate… Turns out it is not easy to read what two people [...]
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“Heuristic” — an ugly word that everyone should know — is used differently in various contexts. It generally refers to a process of making open-ended, provisional decisions in order to get into a better position — “for now” — from which to act and decide better later: Let’s see how this works out — find [...]
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Props to TechAlliance and BIOTECanada for booking Adam Bly to speak at the launch of National Biotechnology Week. I’m very grateful to have attended; I came away rejuvenated with energy and ideas… Bly made the case we need to reorient “our collective ideology, our collective imagination,” towards science — towards “Big Science.” Some of his remarks [...]
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All of the articles on this (e.g. at TechCrunch and O’Reilly) seem to have giant, static screenshots that don’t convey the essence of Google Wave. This is something you have to see in action to appreciate. Not everyone will want to watch the 80 minute demo, but keep it in mind for a rainy day. The nut of the idea is [...]
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In 2000, at the height of the dotcom hype, I had a startling realization: the internet sucked. It was slow, cluttered, ugly, unintuitive, full of spam, required a lot of troubleshooting, and it didn’t even do very much — at least not much more than I could do without it. Whatever the internet offered, it cost [...]
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I highly recommend the current issue of The Atlantic. I went out and bought it yesterday morning. Yes: bought… It has me thinking about magazines, why I like them so much (especially ambitiously intellectual magazines like The Atlantic) and what role publications like this will have in the future — or more specifically, how they will manage to adapt [...]
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For 2009′s Edge Annual Question, John Brockman asked, “What will change everything?” The answers are diverse, but the most common type of response seems to relate to some kind of leap in intelligence — maybe a majority that range from education to artificial intelligence. As I read through it and thought about my own answer, I started to [...]
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ReadWriteWeb has a post about platforms like Facebook, OpenSocial and Flock letting us down: Our culture of sensation and free makes it much harder for platforms to think deeply and be disciplined. Google felt they had to come out with something to stop Facebook’s momentum. Facebook rushed to create a completely open infrastructure; and it [...]
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While dallying with my wording of a comment on a post about Google Chrome at Written Inc, I accidentally coined the term “Borgward” (not entirely a new term) which means “approaching Borg-ness,” which means moving towards a Borg-like singularity. This is all very, very tongue-in-cheek. Borgward is a stupid word that’s amusing on a childish [...]
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I’ve looked through the MIT Technology Review once or twice; I’m not sure why I don’t read it regularly. (I’m going to now.) Maybe because I buy all my magazines at the grocery store checkout. I guess shoppers just aren’t as in to nanostuff and biowhatnot as they used to be. Anyways, it’s available online [...]
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