Thoughts
Our best machines are made of sunshine; they are all light and clean because they are nothing but signals, electromagnetic waves, a section of a spectrum, and these machines are eminently portable, mobile—a matter of immense human pain in Detroit and Singapore. Our best machines are now predictive text
Thoughts
Our machines are disturbingly lively, and we ourselves frighteningly inert. Sitting motionless and staring slack-jawed at a piece of glass showing a non-stop stream of videos until you catch your reflection and meet your own eyes. A Cyborg Manifesto | The Anarchist Library
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The first computer I ever met was a Commodore PET in the library of our grade school. Man, that was a cool library. I made a terrarium in that room once. And it had a reading pit? It’s soon to be gone. The building has been derelict for decades,
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cryptovirus: 1. (biology) A kind of plant virus associated with latent infection of the host, and not transmissible by many means. 2. (computing) A type of malware that is used for extortion by encrypting user files and asking for payment in exchange for the decryption key.
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My Stuff
I love it when I accidentally discover how to do something in an app that I’ve actually been trying to do but for some reason I’ve been stymied. There’s a moment of wonder that reminds me of what it was like to start playing with these machines
Quotes
Stephenson, of course, wasn’t being entirely original either. His vision of the metaverse owed a debt to Vernor Vinge’s 1981 True Names and to a series of William Gibson novels from the ’80s. Both of those authors owed a debt to Morton Heilig’s 1962 Sensorama machine, and
blogs
It feels like such a cliché, but all sorts of things have happened to me in the last couple of weeks that makes it feel like I've turned some sort of corner. I'm being healthier, I'm reading and writing more, and I'm
Quotes
Childhood's End embrace The search engine is no longer a model of human knowledge, it is human knowledge. What began as a mapping of human meaning now defines human meaning, and has begun to control, rather than simply catalog or index, human thought. No one is at the
Quotes
For we forget our origins; in our towns and cities, staring into our screens, we need constantly reminding that we have been operators of computers for a single generation and workers in neon-lit offices for three or four, but we were farmers for five hundred generations, and before that hunter-gatherers