Sci fi writer David Brin looks at J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings through the lens of Romanticism vs. the Enlightenment, nostalgia vs. optimism. And Jakob Nielsen looks at computer tech through the lens of Harry Potter.
I’m a jaded tech journalist. It’s not often that a new Internet service can actually make me excited. But last week I discovered one that had me grinning all afternoon.
Learning to manage information effectively is the most pressing challenge facing the technology world today. (the tweney report, 2002-12-13)
I’m relocating this weblog: As of today, I’m promoting it to the home page of my web site, https://dylan.tweney.com.
I was watching “A Beautiful Mind” recently and was struck how much the mathematician John Nash’s schizophrenia, as portrayed in
You don’t have to be a software programmer to be familiar with the principle. Since the early 1970s, Moore’s Law
John Patrick (formerly of IBM) posts his predictions for the next five Big Things in computing: Autonomic computing, Blogging, Grid Computing, Web Services, and WiFi.
Two early 90’s talks by Bruce Sterling: Free as Air, Free As Water, Free As Knowledge: ‘What’s information really about?
Where are the really good stories in magazines today? The ones that make you say to your friends: “Did you
Game, set, and match. [1] The Inquirer: Moore’s Law meets market saturation. “Today, accountants to video heads have enough horsepower