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The IBMer who cut the e-mail cord and survived to tell the tale
The IBMer who cut the e-mail cord and survived to tell the tale ibmsocialbiz: He lives in the Canary Islands. Works for IBM. When he decided more than 4 years ago that he would no longer respond via e-mail but would use social media channels instead, some colleagues referred to him as “that stubborn Spaniard.”…
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This is happening down the road from us. theatlantic: In Focus: The Terrifying, ‘Epic’ Wildfire in Colorado Colorado Springs Fire Chief Rich Brown described the blaze as “a fire of epic proportions,” as tens of thousands of Colorado residents and tourists have been evacuated ahead of the growing, potentially disastrous Waldo Canyon fire. This fire…
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good: Colombia Has 100 Tiny Libraries in Public Parks The program was started more than 15 years ago, and it has continued to thrive, operating 51 mini libraries in Bogotá and more than 100 throughout the country. The libraries themselves are rather remarkable—they hold about 350 books each, and they’re operated by volunteer librarians who…
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since I’m a science fiction writer, let’s imagine this as a hypothetical situation. You’ve got three women communicating by email. A woman, another woman and a third entity who is a computational system but presenting as a woman. Obviously this male metaphysical head-banging contest is going to last about ten minutes. This situation isn’t a…
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Pleasure in the age of information
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reading Daemon by Daniel Suarez
The general gestured to the screens. “Why wasn’t this detected? Our systems should have sounded the alarm the moment anomalous IP traffic patterns occurred. Isn’t that what the neural logic farm is for?” Philips was calm. “It wasn’t detected, General, because there were no anomalous traffic patterns to detect. The Daemon is not an Internet…
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l’art pour l’art: I would suggest that today artists need a theory to explain what they…
l’art pour l’art: I would suggest that today artists need a theory to explain what they… I would suggest that today artists need a theory to explain what they are doing—not to others, but to themselves. In this respect they are not alone. Every contemporary subject constantly asks these two questions: What has to be…
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theatlantic: Why Should Books Still Be Books When They’re on Tablets? For all the disruption in the publishing industry wrought by the Internet, e-readers, and tablets, reading a book still feels like, well, reading a book: tabbing through pages, digesting information linearly. But maybe that will change. The company Semi-Linear is hoping so: Its recently…