The street finds its own use for things, Berkeley edition
A nice example of a technology being repurposed by users; or of a communications technology we had thought of as ephemeral and world-girdling having a real-world, local impact:
Alok Khorana on electronic medical records’ impact on physicians’ notes
Last year Alok Khorana published a really excellent short piece on the impact of electronic medical records (EMRs, those things that are supposed to save medicine) on the
Quote of the day: Stewart Brand on Spacewar
From his 1972 article on the early videogame: Spacewar as a parable is almost too pat. It was the illegitimate child of the marrying of computers and graphic
Another Zenware data-point: iA’s Writer
Last night I stumbled on Writer, a writing tool designed by Information Architects Inc., a Tokyo-based Web design and branding firm. Rather like OmmWriter, it's a high-end minimalist
Edward Tenner and offloading memory
Edward Tenner in The Atlantic on what is at stake in offloading memory: The issue isn't whether most information belongs online rather than in the head. We were
Introduction to Contemplative Computing: My talk at Lift11, Marseille
This is an illustrated copy of the talk I gave at the Lift11 conference in Marseille, France in July 2011. I was in a session titled "Slow," and
I for one welcome our new robot goldfish overlords
The first cyborg goldfish: the motion of the goldfish controls a robot that moves around as the fish swims. (Though Andy Clark would disagree that the goldfish is
Unintended consequences essay now available
The super-official, published, nice-looking version of my article "Feasting at the Banquet of Unintended Consequences" is now available online through MyForesight, the Malaysian futures Web site. It's part
The rise of self-publishing
I've spent the last few weeks working on a book proposal around contemplative computing. It's been a great, absorbing experience, so naturally an article on the growing respectability
Qantified self
A brief post about self-tracking and the quantified self movement on my Future 2 blog.