March 31 10
William Gibson shares some wisdom on writing, answering some forum questions: Q: Which novels did you enjoy writing most? A: Writing novels is a painful and anxiety-ridden process, for me. There are *moments* of enjoyment. I very much enjoy the state of having written. Q: Least? A: They’re all equally if differently painful, and each [...]
March 30 10
I have rarely met anyone who has enjoyed or appreciated bureaucracy. Maybe the people who are entrenched in it or contribute to it. There are problems of efficiency (a whole other post) that are nearly universally recognized but we cannot seem to improve. Looking at the rich history of our people (everyone) it seems like [...]
March 25 10
The reason I’ve been writing about existing forms is that I don’t know what new forms will appear. But though I can’t predict specific winners, I can offer a recipe for recognizing them. When you see something that’s taking advantage of new technology to give people something they want that they couldn’t have before, you’re [...]
March 25 10
As more of our conversations parse through personally, carried devices and the services they connect to our ability to transform, filter and analyse what is being spoken evolves. Simple examples exist today – mobile phones designed for the elderly in Japan include features that can slow down conversations by up to ~30% to make them [...]
March 1 10
synchronicity |ˌsi ng krəˈnisitē| noun 1 the simultaneous occurrence of events that appear significantly related but have no discernible causal connection : such synchronicity is quite staggering. 2 another term for synchrony (sense 1). ORIGIN 1950s: coined (in sense 1) by C. G. Jung. Things are duplicated everywhere. Tweets in Tweetie, across computers and the [...]