Admiral Shovel and the Toilet Roll. Current technology is on a path to fundamentally change how our society operates. Whether we can adapt to these changes remains to be seen. This is the best, most inspiring, and on point piece I’ve read this year.
Tag Archives: technology
Minimum Viable Narrative
https://vimeo.com/46661516
One startup in this class at PIE is KS12. As a creative studio, they’re breaking the mold of what you typically might see at a tech incubator. Plus, they’re powered by WordPress. Pretty neat.
SideCar
Four years ago: Here’s the problem: I, like many people I know, drive too many places all alone in my car. One person in a three ton metal vehicle that could easily transport five. To move all of that mass around, with such unused, waste… Continue reading →
Anil Dash: Why you can’t trust tech press can’t teach you about the tech industry
Fortunately, whether or not Google makes a commenting widget isn’t that big a deal on its own. Maybe they will or maybe they won’t, and maybe it’ll fail again or maybe it won’t. But the key lesson to take away here is that we know… Continue reading →
The coming war on general purpose computing
So, our regulators go off, they blithely pass these laws, and they become part of the reality of our technological world. There are, suddenly, numbers that we aren’t allowed to write down on the Internet, programs we’re not allowed to publish, and all it takes… Continue reading →
Neal Stephenson: Innovation Starvation
Innovation can’t happen without accepting the risk that it might fail. The vast and radical innovations of the mid-20th century took place in a world that, in retrospect, looks insanely dangerous and unstable. Possible outcomes that the modern mind identifies as serious risks might not… Continue reading →
Alex Payne on the process cults
When I look around the world, the businesses that dominate don’t seem to be the ones that formed around process as a rallying cry. Rather, they adapted processes to bolster world-changing, market-creating ideas. The world doesn’t need a lean startup, or a developed customer, or… Continue reading →
Brian Lam on what technology means for happiness
Informationally, we are becoming lard-asses. In the pageview and ratings driven media economy, too much of the content these days is designed to be just like junk food to quickly boost quantifiable viewership. If you make content that is the intellectual equivalent of gummy bears,… Continue reading →
Today’s two WordPress.com VIP launches: PandoDaily and Grist
Today, MLK day even, two new sites launched on WordPress.com VIP that I’m personally pretty excited about. PandoDaily PandoDaily is a brand new tech site started by Sarah Lacy, former senior editor at TechCrunch. From her announcement post: We have one goal here at PandoDaily: To be… Continue reading →
Tech Companies are Media Companies and Vice Versa. This point needs to be reiterated more often.