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Freedom is the just released sequel to Daniel Suarez’s Daemon. Given how much I enjoyed the author’s debut novel the expectations were tremendously high. After an automated software task co-opts much of the world’s wealth and information infrastructure, how much more could there be to say?
Turns out there’s more. Much, much meme-creating more.
Continue Reading...Renny Gleeson speaking at the February, 2009 Ted Conference had this to say about our evolving expectations regarding availability and connectivity:
So, as we lose the context of our identity, it becomes incredibly important that what you share becomes the context of shared narrative, becomes the context in which we live. The stories that we tell — what we push out — becomes who we are. We aren’t simply projecting identity, they’re creating it.
And so that’s the request I have for everybody in this room. We are creating the technology that is going to create the new shared experience, which will create the new world. And so my request is, please, let’s make technologies that make people more human, and not less.
Full three minute talk embedded below:
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