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Captain Kirk had to tune his fucking communicator and it couldn’t text or take a photo that he could stick a nice Polaroid filter on. Science fiction didn’t see the mobile phone coming. It certainly didn’t see the glowing glass windows many of us carry now, where we make amazing things happen by pointing at it with our fingers like goddamn wizards.
Estimated reading time: 1 min

Sometimes I Think About Reinstating The Comments System

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The deep interaction between creator and reader that the internet has brought us is not always healthy for either side, nor does it always – or even often – bring out the best in either side.
Estimated reading time: 3 min

The Dead Kindle And What I Learned About Amazon Customer Service

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Isn’t it strange, to be so shocked by actual efficient, friendly and delightful customer service?  To have a global electronics company say, “well, hell, we’re sorry about this, how about we sort this out quickly and cheaply for you instead of humping you right in the eyesockets and stealing your wallet?”
Estimated reading time: 3 min

GUEST INFORMANT: Stoya

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Question the things I say, question your newspapers, television reporters and favorite blog. Question the things you thought and the things you think now. It’s the only way any of us are going to grow…
Estimated reading time: 3 min

To A Wyrd 2013

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where we are looking for the steam-engines just before steam-engine-time comes.
Estimated reading time: 1 min

Money Isn’t Real: remarks for the Greg Palast event, 26 June 2012

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It’s not real.  Cash has never been real.  It’s a stand-in, a fiction, a symbol that denotes money.  Money that you never see.
Estimated reading time: 3 min

Unsocial Media: The Uselessness Of Facebook And Google+

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Facebook Pages allow some 16% of the people who clicked Like on a Page to see the posts from that Page.  Regardless of whether or not those people specifically requested those posts in their News Feed.  If a Page owner wants to access the eyeballs of more of the people who clicked Like on a Page because they wanted to see that Page’s posts, that Page owner has to pay to Promote those posts.
Estimated reading time: 3 min

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And I remain, for no good reason, sad and angry over this stupid and petty thing, because it sought to tell the world that my odd, bittersweet, green and grey little country is not beautiful and mad in all the ways I have always known it to be.
Estimated reading time: 1 min

Tomorrow’s World: The Near Future Of Pop

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Pop will go down into the tube station at midnight and have sex. Lots of sex.
Estimated reading time: 6 min

A Boring Post About The Apps On My Phone

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The phone is, first and foremost, a thing that gathers information.
Estimated reading time: 2 min

Some Notes On THE NEWSROOM

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But, as a middle-aged white man, I take issue with the notion that it takes a Great White Man to fix the culture, and that shitting on every woman in the room to do it is just quirky, grumpy collateral damage.
Estimated reading time: 5 min

What Is The Legal Status Of The Weather?

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What is the international legality of that?  I mean, if you could exert serious control over weather. Is there a legal framework for saving your cities from destructive weather by pushing that weather somewhere else?  What’s the right of response if you find yourself suddenly deluged by the rainfall that nature had originally aimed at a city that couldn’t take it?  Saving Wales by chucking eight feet of water at Ireland?
Estimated reading time: 4 min

Path

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It seems to me that Path, an intelligently gentle app for an always-on and always-fast internet, may prove to have the niche that no-one really wanted to set up a table in.  Shame.
Estimated reading time: 3 min

My Information Diet: Practical Website Capture

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Let me try this on you: the world was always bigger and denser and more eventful than mainstream media could ever communicate. 
Estimated reading time: 5 min

booklist 2013: UNDERGROUND ENGLAND, Stephen Smith

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A secret buried town called Subterfuge.  How can you not love that?
Estimated reading time: 1 min
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