How cool to have a gigabit Internet? Not so much.
Is it really cool to have gigabit network connectivity? Or is it more like it would’ve been to be one […]
Networks
Draft
Space
Spectacular time lapse from the International Space Station
Knate Myers has created a time-lapse from cleaned-up video shot from the International Space Station. I’d love to see the
Culture
Transformation of (or by) comic culture
Mainstream superheroes with decades of history (Superman, Batman, SpiderMan, the various Avengers) are flying off comic book pages onto the
Community
Howard Rheingold on the state of the WELL
Howard Rheingold’s written a good short piece for the Atlantic explaining why the WELL is historically important, and how the
Community
The WELL has been an important driver for evolving Internet culture
At bOING bOING, Cory Doctorow explains what’s happening with the WELL. I commented there, reposted here: My view is that
Futures, Technology
Are computers intelligent?
At Reality Augmented Blog, I recently posted a Storify of my live tweets from Bruce Sterling’s talk at the Turing
4th Way, Cinema, Culture
“Shame” and transformation
Just saw the grim but enlightening film “Shame,” wherein Michael Fassbender plays Brandon, a bland, disarmingly handsome thirtysomething obsessed with
Space
SpaceX: a new era, a few years late?
The launch of the SpaceX Dragon is a major step toward the privatization of space travel, which according to Messrs.
Culture, Futures, Politics
Mark Dery dances the apocalypso
I’m leading a two-week asynchronous discussion with erudite author and culture critic Mark Dery, whose provocative essay collection I Must