Archive for April, 2009
Apparently I am bizarre, because I am the one person in the history of mankind who liked Clippy.
You know, the paper clip in Microsoft’s Word. Whenever I needed him most, he’d appear. Yes, I AM composing a letter! Thank you!
I’m a believer in personal agents. I think the people who had the foresight to see them coming have been oddly silent lately.
It feels like the signal to noise ratio of the world has decreased significantly over the past several years. Not just in terms of communications volume, but also what it is that people have to contribute.
Navigating a world like this should prove to be exceedingly difficult unless we start figuring out what we need to do to keep our interaction with the world manageable.
Entire microcosms are coming into existence around wholly useless memes. Meme viruses manifest themselves as links that get sent around, singlehandedly destroying time and brain cycles. It’s not just about productivity any more either, it’s quality of life.