A historical collection of our writing.
Here is my talk from the wonderful GEL conference earlier this year covering some of the ideas from my draft book World After Capital […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I love programming. I also encourage people to learn some programming because (a) it is a useful way of thinking and (b) much of the world will be programmable. Here is a quick example that I just encountered when I prepared yesterday’s Tech Tuesday Index. I had a document with links to every post […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I am about to start a new series (on uncertainty) and so I decided it would be fun to go back and index all the old Tech Tuesday posts. Here is is (also available as a Google Document): Computing’s Building Blocks (Overview) Of Bits and Bytes (Binary Number System) A First Look at the Central […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
We have a couple of split air conditioners. One of them is reasonably old (1987 model) and when we bought the place it came without a remote. We will eventually have to redo the roof and will replace all ACs with more modern and hopefully higher efficiency models. Until then, however, I was hoping […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I have written and talked about the need for a “right to be represented by a bot.” By a bot here I mean software that runs on my behalf as an enduser and mediates my interactions with online services. In the web world, the browser is such as bot. For instance, I can run an […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I recently ordered and received a developer edition of Microsoft’s Hololens. This is me looking goofy wearing it at the USV office: TL;DR: the Hololens is a well executed preview of an amazing augmented reality future. Compared to the Vive and Oculus (VR, I know the difference) the Hololens ships […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
