..William Gibson Hates Futurists..

from tyeebooks.ca William Gibson Hates Futurists The night they started to broadcast television in New York, New York ceased to be what it had been before. Because everyone stayed home to watch television. … Virtual reality was one of our most recent experiences of a future that didn’t happen. The one before that would have […]

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..From The Information Age To The Connected Age..

from GigaOM … Microsoft (Information Age) vs. Google (Connected Age) Microsoft (MSFT) exemplifies the Information Age. It uses step-by-step, top-down controlled project management methods to build monolithic intangible goods — desktop and client/server software — largely from scratch. It uses money as currency, monetizing knowledge products using licensing fees and strict control of software copying. […]

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Henry Jenkins on retro-futurism

Cory linked to Henry Jenkin’s articles on retro-futurism on one of the BoingBoing posts about (yes) steampunk. Here’s a (long) selection of quotes that I found interesting. ((Note: there’s a printer icon at the bottom of this, this post may be better read offline)) From “The Tomorrow That Never Was”: Retrofuturism in the Comics of […]

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