Where do you want to explore today?
I’ve been going back through some of my earliest notes for this project, and struck this one, which raises some interesting ideas around online geography. It’s good to note that we have moved away from such overt travel and movement metaphors, which were always an ill fit, though a [...]
Categories: Technology
Here are some notes I wrote when I first started thinking about these issues (and, thankfully, started blogging so I still have those notes) back in 2002. As you might expect, I no longer agree with everything I wrote, and I’ve developed my thinking about this stuff over the last 7 years – but since [...]
Categories: Society, Technology, information
I’m reading Ray Kurzweil’s ‘The Singularity is Near‘. It’s an interesting book. Fascinating, even. It’s full of insight and explanations of some of the most important technological advances in human history – and some of its predictions may well come to pass in some form or another. The man, frankly, is amazing.
But I’m reading it [...]
Categories: Adaptation, Technology
Yes, this is definitely related.
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I get accused from time to time of being a Technological Determinist. It’s sort of true: I believe that technology affects history. But I don’t believe that we are powerless in the face of our technologies. The whole point of evolution is that it is a creative response to an environmental [...]
Categories: Politics, Technology
Tagged: internet, neutrality
So, I’m writing a book about the ways in which digitalisation changes not only what we do and how we operate, but who we are as human beings.
Following from Media Ecology and taking no small degree of inspiration from the work of Marshall McLuhan, NOW WE ARE DIFFERENT (working title) seeks to explore all [...]
Categories: Culture, Technology