New media, old metaphors

After a weekend in which British newspapers have been fairly free with the “internet will make us all dumb by reducing attention spans” lament, slightly encouraging to find Wired news featuring a video game which is a) about climate change – in some sense of “about” and b) apparently rather good.
I keep an eye out [...]

Today’s Sterling thought…

Another Bruce Sterling quote (just can’t stop reading the guy…) which is too nice not to pass on
Some black swans are beautiful
um, think that one gets tagged under optimism, unlike his last
context in the interview here, full of similarly pithy remarks which he seems to just toss off effortlessly in conversation. Me, I have to [...]

optimism (light relief)

In case anyone who stumbles in here does not read Charlie Stross’s interweb outpourings (a reliable source of entertainment and stimulation) I can’t resist relaying news from him last June – OK I only catch up with him occasionally, prompted on this occasion by Richard Jones at soft machine.
Anyhow, he pointed toward a wonderfully fuzzy [...]