Future

Paper: Still The Ideal Backup Medium

05.15.2012 Books and Literature

I am a thoroughly digital guy. I back up in multiple ways. But when I really care about preserving something, I print it out. If you’re young, thirty or under, you may think of a long time as ten years, maybe twenty. But as you grow older you begin to think of longer horizons. I [...]

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Writing Assignment: Write A “What If?”

05.04.2012 Books and Literature

Life, history, is a continual stream of choices and events. History may not be just “one damn thing after another.” I think it’s closer to “the story of things that almost didn’t happen.” These things that happened and didn’t happen are an exceptionally fertile playground for writers. I’m a fan of science fiction and the [...]

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Amazon Prime-Quantum Edition

03.13.2012 Business

To: Office Staff Subject: Meeting Changes & Causality All, Until further notice, William Byrne will be absent from the office. He will also be unable to attend today’s schedule resolution meeting. It has come to our attention that William was using Amazon’s new Amazon Quantum shopping interface here in his cubical and received the item [...]

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Libraries: The Local Office For The Internet

03.06.2012 Future

During the recent successful fight to stop the SOPA initiative, I was struck by two things: the Internet community can be very effective and mobilized extremely rapidly AND we need to do more of that. It’s easy to pat ourselves on the back and claim victory, but it’s never that easy. The forces that wanted [...]

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Living In The Future, Keeping It In Your Pocket

02.28.2012 Future

I bought a new camera the other day. It doesn’t matter which one—they change so rapidly. It literally took me months to make up my mind and choose one. I find digital cameras frustrating. When I was a kid I got a good quality 35mm camera and used it for over twenty years. It was [...]

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