All in Humor
Were I in charge of designing the Facebook smartphone, I would absolutely love what’s going on now on the web.
A couple of weeks ago I ran into Ian McCully on Google+ on a video “hangout.”
A Fire Upon the Web
In A Fire Upon the Deep, Vinge created a universe where different physical laws exist in different locations corresponding to different levels of communications and travel speed. This got me to thinking about the different levels of computing and networking that have existed and are evolving as arguments about what constitutes Web 2.0 continue.
Stage 1 - The Joining
A meatspace friend tells you about a new service that all the cool kids are using. You join.
Remember the scene in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey where NASA official Heywood Floyd, on his way to the Moon, stops to read the lengthy zero-gravity toilet instructions? It’s one of the few humorous moments in this film and usually gets a laugh.