In Allison Arieff’s post today for the New York Times’ By Design blog on “Saving the Suburbs,” there were a bunch of ideas, fired off like grape shot from a hundred-gun ship (it was a long post).
One of these caught my attention: Transit-oriented residences, which would amount to high-density developments based near rail [...]
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As Boing Boing reported earlier this morning, Singularity University is to be unveiled today.
The singularity, if you’re unfamiliar, is a term coined by Vernor Vinge that refers to the rapid acceleration of technological change*. For an example, think of how quickly computers have evolved. Here’s a graph of the exponential growth in mass use of [...]
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So, since there’s a light trickle of literary people to my blog, I’m going to type up what are the beginnings of some thinking I’ve been doing about narrative theory (using this term a bit loosely). And I’d like to know what you think.
In the thousands and thousands of pieces of writing I’ve read [...]
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