a blog about information
Soon, AI will be used as the scapegoat for anything that doesn’t work Following on from my last two posts, I’ve continued to ruminate on instances where inflexible rules (often compounded by unnecessary complexity) created problematic circumstances that could only be solved by humans with empathy and empowerment. I loved the @mildlyamused tweet that Stefan … Continue reading “Of Cheap Day Returns and Kletskassa”
The four types of code Most of my working life, I’ve worked with information in one form or the other. As more and more things became “digital”, I spent time trying to understand how all this would work in society, in the real world, in a physical context. What was different and why it mattered. … Continue reading “How’s that? A rambling post about cricket and codes”
Introduction I can’t believe it’s been nearly forty years since I first watched one of my all-time favourite films, Local Hero. if you haven’t watched it as yet, I envy you. You’re in for a treat. (If you don’t feel like watching the film, just listen to the soundtrack). I’m not going to say anything … Continue reading “It’s never locked”
(*I do have the original brochure, which I photographed for this post. But it’s not the one I left the ground with in 1966. I acquired this one at a second-hand at a book fair decades later.) 1. Introduction I love cricket. I went to my first Test match fifty-five years ago today. And that’s … Continue reading “Why I love cricket – A long slow post”
A few years ago, I read this disturbing Rip van Winkle post by Hossein Derakhshan. He’d been incarcerated for six years, and wrote about how the Web he’d left had changed while he was away. One phrase stood out for me. A departure from a books-internet to a television-internet. It resonated. Deeply. I’ve believed in … Continue reading “On platforms and sustainability”