February 2015
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People Have the Star Trek Computer Backwards
I was watching Star Trek — the early episodes — with the family a couple weeks ago when it occurred to me: Silicon Valley has got the lesson of the Star Trek computer all wrong. Here’s the Silicon Valley mythology of it, from Google, but it could be from any company there really: So I Continue reading
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A Portfolio of Connections
I’ve talked a bit about federated wiki in terms of the way it enables collaboration with others across institutional boundaries. But as we go into Happening #2, I’m gaining more appreciation with the way that it allows for collaboration with ourselves across temporal boundaries. That may sound really muddled. But consider the scenario I demonstrate Continue reading