Tag: technology
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The mobile internet that fits my notion of that the mobile internet is
The Mobile Internet is just The Internet. The Internet is just the Network of Networks. Networks are just “computers connected to one another so they can send messages to one another”. “Computers connected to one another …” is just Ethernet. The Mobile Internet I want is just Ethernet. Like WiFi. Like WiFi but with long-distance…
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chores
AI+robotics should make everyone’s life easier by doing the things in our lives that are necessary, time consuming, and annoying; basically, as the saying goes, they should be doing our chores so we can have more time to enjoy our hobbies. Chore is one of those odd words who’s meaning emerges from some kind of…
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when open doors let in all the wrong people
Bots use up more CPU cycles on the average Web site than humans, and bots are increasingly not there to help. Where in days gone by, a bot might be indexing for a search engine to help people you don’t know find your site, today the mostly exist to feed giant statistical machines that calculate…
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private data, public data, public information
If you have a pile of data, you have three choices:
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too abstract
Abstraction is the practice of peeling away the unnecessary, the unimportant, and the unwanted to arrive as some ideal, yet unreal representation of where you started. It happens in any discipline where we try to represent the real world in a fabricated realm of ideas or concepts. In computing, abstraction takes on a guise of…
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humans interacting with computers
I was first introduced to the concept of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) in the spring of 2002 while working on a system that would ostensibly tell Congress where the money they allocated to the Intelligence community in the “black budget” was going and whether or not it was producing valuable returns. This, of course, was never…
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Dragons
The Internet and the World Wide Web represent what happens when you build a system that structurally subverts the mechanisms of constraint that allow a government to regulate the behavior of community members. Typically, this has been seen as a good thing because it was initially done by benevolent tinkerers and lots of people benefited…
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humanity is not important
Atoms in the human body: 7 x 1027Atoms in the human race: 5 x 1037 Atoms in the universe: 6 x 1079 Atoms in the human body / atoms in the universe: 1 x 10-52Atoms in the human race / atoms in the universe: 1 x 10-42 Zero percent of the atoms in the universe…
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Scaling Standards
Level Human Geographic Organization Logical 1 Personal Device Individual Personal-Area 2 Family Home Workgroup Local-Area 3 Tribe Neighborhood Team Campus-Area 4 Community City Co-Op Metro-Area 5 Clan Region Company Wide-Area 6 Nation Continent Government Nation-Area 7 Species Planet MegaCorp World-Wide
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EIS: Building Integrated Systems
Anyone can set-up a computer, and if you can set up one, you can set up two. Almost anyone can plug those two computers into a hub or switch and get them to talk to each other. If you can do that, then replacing the hub or switch with a broadband router isn’t much harder,…