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A Moving N.Y. Times op-ed by Ellen Ullman about how cross-generational knowledge transfer is suffering in the software industry with so many programmers out of work. Read it for her encomium to the "mysterious places, wild people, dreamers and tinkerers" that are the sources of innovation.
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I'll spare you the "nevermore" jokes, but it does seem like The Raven, one of my all-time favorite Salon blogs, has hung up his keyboard, at least for now. I'll miss his caustic and restless reviews of the news.
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"It's not a natural thing to see the dead, or hear their voices"
| | Had nations better understood the potential of the Internet, I suspect they might well have strangled it in its cradle. Emergent technology is, by its very nature, out of control, and leads to unpredictable outcomes. As indeed does the emergent realm of the digital. I prefer to view this not as the advent of some new and extraordinary weirdness, but as part of the ongoing manifestation of some very ancient and extraordinary weirdness: our gradual spinning of a sort of extended prosthetic mass nervous-system, out of some urge that was present around the cooking-fires of our earliest human ancestors. |
William Gibson, speaking to the Director's Guild of America. The whole speech is extraordinary.
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