A live sports show produced by the Boston Globe, on the Internet at noon a few days a week?
File under: The New Normal.
Spring/Summer Reading List Progress Report: Rainbows End
Late last night, I finished reading Vernor Vinge’s Rainbows End, the first book on my reading list.
That list, a few of you might remember, was put together from your tweeted suggestions based on my remarkably idiosyncratic and subjective criteria, including “not too depressing” and published after 1999 or so.
Rainbows End fit all my requirements, and thanks to Brian Boyer for the recommendation.
Not going to author a full book report here, but please accept this short list of keywords and clauses as a sort of reduction sauce:
- singularity
- heavily augmented reality
- ubiquitous Internet
- the natural evolution of wearable computing technology
- crowdsourcing as default method of information gathering
- misinformation by SEO
- a globe clothing itself in a brain
- the future of vocational education, shop class, and international espionage.
Highly recommended.
Levon Helm in Santa Cruz, 1976.
Follow me around the Internet long enough, and you’ll notice I love to pass along links like this. I suppose I did so before I had a daughter, but that nearly 5-year-old fact certainly changes things a bit.
So, check this out. All you really need to know is “Etsy Hacker Grants” are scholarships for women to go to a sort of programmer summer camp in New York this year.
If that sounds like something you, or one of your favorite women, would be interested in, pass it along.
Because you need a motion control system for your iPhone’s camera, using your iPad as a remote control. Sort of. Maybe you don’t think you do, but you do.
(via Kickstarter and Raw File)
"I know calling things “blogs” has some cultural cachet, as if a blog is somehow more up-to-date than your normal news content. But again, that’s probably because your main content management system is clunky and slow and the new “blog” is super duper fast. That’s a silly reason to distinguish between the content."
There was a time, not so long ago, when I would have completely bought into this and freaked out and told you how excited I was to see a browser with the Los Angeles Times sports section front open on a flexible display in someone’s hand.
But that was all before the iPad.
Now, yes, while I still think that this flexible e-ink display is going to be built into many interesting objects, I don’t think this is the future of newspapers.
Completely inconclusive, but worth a quick read if you spend any time at all thinking about things like this.
Also, I’m pretty sure Facebook is the Google of the Social Graph, but without involving anything so 1998-ish as an actual search engine.
