My son’s night light died a few days ago, so we went to Ikea and bought him a new one.
There were strings of LEDs on sale, and we bought him some blue ones.
Now his bed looks like a tricked-out Honda Civic, ready for street racing. I hope the blue is soothing or something. It seemed more calming than white.
[To the tune of Peter Frampton, “Greens,” from the album “Now”.]
Someone tagged my “paradigm shift” key picture as a favorite in flickr.
[To the tune of Elton John, “Funeral for A Friend / Love Lies Bleeding,” from the album “Here and There”.]
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I’m in the office today, though no one else is. I think I missed a memo. Still, I got a lot done….
Actually, it is a cool picture.
[To the tune of Elton John, “Funeral for A Friend / Love Lies Bleeding,” from the album “Here and There”.]
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From a William Gibson blog post that links back here:
The thing that's going to be quaint about "cyberspace" (that already is, really) is the inherent assumption that it's a realm unto itself; that it's in any way elsewhere or other.
Glancing sideways is becoming more generally recognized as about the best way of doing what we used to call futurism.
At the risk of making this too tightly interconnected a thread, I'll note that Gibson's well-known quote that "the future's already here, it's just unevenly distributed" (also sometimes rendered as "not evenly distributed" or "not uniformly distributed") is engraved n the memory of every futurist. Especially since we started using ethnographic techniques in our work, studying early adopters for clues as to how the rest of us would use currently-new technologies.
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Delta Scan made it into Wonkette!
Human Rights Legislation for Rat-Brained Robot Soldiers, NOW!
While god-crazy American politicians are taking two weeks off to get drunk and IM young boys, our atheistic friends in Britain are looking towards the Future — a future of rat-brained self-aware robotic service workers and soldiers who will likely organize and demand “human” rights by 2056.
Undoubtedly the best media mention involving the Institute’s work since Future Now showed up in that YouTube video earlier this year.
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The Delta Scan is open!
[To the tune of U2, “Until The End Of The World,” from the album “Achtung Baby”.]
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I spent a good bit of last year working on a project for the British government on the future of science and technology. It was an immense amount of work, but the kind of rare project that seems to make use of everything you already know, and forces you to learn a lot of new stuff. It’s also what allowed me to go to England four times last year (okay, the fourth project-related trip was January).
In about an hour, I get to throw the switch on the database that we developed as part of the project, and release it to the general public. This wasn’t part of the original plan; but the government ultimately decided that this was worth making more widely available. Good for them. (I don’t get to turn it on because of my privileged position on the project; I just happen to be the one with the right administrative access.)
I have the odd feeling that this project is going to have consequences for me far beyond boosting my frequent flyer account and getting me to learn about MySQL; but I don’t know what they’ll be.
[To the tune of Prince, “Purple Rain,” from the album “Ultimate”.]
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Someone at work customized my keyboard.
I don’t know who did it, but I have my suspicions….
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I spent the evening working on revisions to an article on the uses of STS in futures and scenario planning, but have kept hearing sirens, the occasional screeching tire, and now what sound like police choppers. I wonder what’s going. The Mercury News Web site doesn’t say (though they do report that some friends are moving to Seattle).
The helicopters have been pretty constant, for the last couple hours. Police scanners should be streamed over the Web. (Actually, it turns out, a bunch of city police departments do have streaming scanners.) I hope there’s something in tomorrow’s paper about it.
[To the tune of Marvin Gaye, “I Want You (Single Version),” from the album “I Want You (Deluxe Edition)”.]
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