June 2012
“But this idea that we are trading the offline for the online, though it...”
– The IRL Fetish – The New Inquiry (via thisistheverge)
Prefixing anything other than ‘netics’ with ‘cyber’ is an indication that you have no idea what you’re talking about.
The Cheap Truth people (Gibson, Sterling, Rucker, & Shirley) can get away with not knowing what they are talking about because they are just generally so awesome, so Cyberpunk is ok so long as it makes no pretense of technical verisimilitude.
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kottke.org: The Half-Life of Facts →
jkottke:
Sam Arbesman has turned his mesofacts concept into an upcoming book called The Half-Life of Facts.
Facts change all the time. The age at which women should get a mammogram has increased. Smoking has gone from doctor recommended to deadly while the healthiness of carbs and fat seems to be in…
