Comments on: On comics and teleportation and similar Saturday meanderings into the future

By: JP

JP — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:40:32 +0000

Anant, Tom, Louis, thanks for the comments. Anant, I agree, we need a comicwallah post.

By: Louis Pagan

Louis Pagan — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:38:42 +0000

Thanks for the comic book flashback – great stuff!

By: Anant

Anant — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:28:06 +0000

sorry, uneducated…

By: Anant

Anant — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:27:06 +0000

JP,

Lovely read. Need to come back during the weekend and savour. And perhaps you could do a piece on comicwallah, arguably a mobile library way ahead of its time? The dabbawallahs of Mumbai have been case-studied and discussed to death, but it takes some crazy skill for someone like comicwallah to remember who has read what, likes what, etc, despite being (almost) ineducated…

By: DE

DE — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:22:12 +0000

There is an interesting division in this article between “make and build” – which is mainly a male activity, whether done in the back of the shed to avoid family situations or for real – comapred with the stewardship / conservation instincts that are indeed pretty universal.

The consumer economy allows people to “have” what they cannot “build”. And yes, that includes children at the moment. I’m interested to see what happens to society if we go back to “if you can’t make it, you can’t have it”.

By: JP

JP — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:49:58 +0000

Zigurd, that’s very interesting. Just the kind of thing I’d love to chat over with someone like David Anderson or Martin Fowler, both of whom have some real understanding of distributed agility. Thanks for stopping by.

By: JP

JP — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:48:41 +0000

Yes, I was amazed at how much Sugar and Spike set the tone for what nursery books now look like.

By: JP

JP — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:47:51 +0000

Glad you liked the post, Anita. I think we’re all still learning the importance of narrative and stories in our lives.

By: JP

JP — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:47:02 +0000

Jon, thanks for stopping by. I think I tweeted back to you, yes I have read Kavalier and Clay.

By: Bookmarks for March 9th from 00:10 to 07:33 — arghh.net

Bookmarks for March 9th from 00:10 to 07:33 — arghh.net — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:49:28 +0000

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