September 2010
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“You stand in a throng of multifleshed being, mind avatared in all its matter, on...”
– norman spinrad, songs from the stars (1980).
in this book, an alien race shares its knowledge through “songs” that project their listener into alternate realities.
digital technology being relatively new and constantly-changing at the time, spinrad imagined what such digital technologies could be...
“The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and...”
– fyodor dostoevsky, brothers karamazov.
“…and you will find someday that, after all, it isn’t as horrible as it...”
– Richard Feynman.
scientists have fulfilled all dreams by finding... →
list of animals by number of neurons. →
WatchArthur B Clarke talks about the internet and globalization in 1964.
“It is hard to overstate the importance of weed as a determining factor in the...”
– Molly Young, SWEATPANTS IN PARADISE, The Believer.
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“We have made little headway in computational psycholinguistics, which to me has...”
– Martin Kay, A Life of Language.