Posts in 2020
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Some thoughts on the Glass Bead Game
17.25, Wednesday 29 Jan 2020
651 words, 1 link -
Interconnected is 20 years old today
12.26, Wednesday 19 Feb 2020
196 words, 4 links
Has 1 follow-up post
Tagged: meta -
VP of Something
07.45, Friday 21 Feb 2020
698 words, 1 link
Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2020 -
Now people are comfortable with video
19.38, Tuesday 31 Mar 2020
482 words, 5 links
Has 1 follow-up post -
Perhaps China’s centralised supply chain won’t last forever
20.42, Wednesday 1 Apr 2020
1,032 words, 9 links
Has 3 follow-up posts
Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2020, speculative-in-2020 -
New rooms for the new normal
18.13, Thursday 2 Apr 2020
628 words, 4 links
Has 2 follow-up posts
Tagged: speculative-in-2020 -
Just a quick couple of links about bears, because I’ve been busy today
19.28, Friday 3 Apr 2020
109 words, 2 links -
The law, the 4 day working week, and how come society doesn’t see the benefit of automation
20.09, Monday 6 Apr 2020 (streak: 2 weeks)
818 words, 1 link -
Cyborg prosthetics for limbs that don’t exist
18.15, Tuesday 7 Apr 2020 (streak: 2 weeks)
712 words, 10 links
Has 8 follow-up posts
Tagged: speculative-in-2020 -
Neutron bombs and suddenly being able to see the key economy
19.55, Thursday 9 Apr 2020 (streak: 2 weeks)
942 words, 4 links
Has 2 follow-up posts -
The day between the crucifixion and the resurrection
11.14, Saturday 11 Apr 2020 (streak: 2 weeks)
544 words, 2 links -
So what happens with all the empty office space?
20.15, Monday 13 Apr 2020 (streak: 3 weeks)
441 words, no links
Has 1 follow-up post -
A starter list of ersatz foods
19.42, Tuesday 14 Apr 2020 (streak: 3 weeks)
306 words, 7 links
Tagged: food-and-so-on -
Don’t drop bombs, drop schools and hospitals
20.18, Wednesday 15 Apr 2020 (streak: 3 weeks)
818 words, 3 links
Tagged: political-fantasies -
Re: Tom Critchlow’s proposal for a decentralised Goodreads-like system, how about using RSS?
16.51, Thursday 16 Apr 2020 (streak: 3 weeks)
1,245 words, 18 links -
What if charisma is a golden mane?
19.32, Friday 17 Apr 2020 (streak: 3 weeks)
442 words, 4 links
Has 5 follow-up posts
Tagged: speculative-in-2020 -
Some rambling thoughts about the stuttering end of the last ice age and what lockdown means
20.47, Monday 20 Apr 2020 (streak: 4 weeks)
747 words, 4 links
Has 1 follow-up post
Tagged: complexity, the-ancient-world-is-now -
Video calls, doing stuff together, and the TV room
17.24, Wednesday 22 Apr 2020 (streak: 4 weeks)
1,320 words, 3 links
Has 1 follow-up post -
Animal Crossing and games as wish fulfilment
19.30, Friday 24 Apr 2020 (streak: 4 weeks)
752 words, 5 links -
Domestic telepresence at scale: some notes
21.05, Monday 27 Apr 2020 (streak: 5 weeks)
1,450 words, 14 links
Tagged: multiplayer -
Video game soundtracks, and a format for adaptive long music
17.58, Tuesday 28 Apr 2020 (streak: 5 weeks)
1,354 words, 14 links
Tagged: sound-and-music -
So I went outside and we’re all wearing masks now
17.07, Saturday 2 May 2020 (streak: 5 weeks)
1,010 words, 6 links -
Two methods of producing butter, and two for sugar too
18.04, Tuesday 5 May 2020 (streak: 6 weeks)
530 words, 6 links
Tagged: food-and-so-on -
There is no After
17.31, Wednesday 6 May 2020 (streak: 6 weeks)
1,653 words, 6 links
Has 3 follow-up posts
Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2020 -
Public computing and two ideas for touchless interfaces
12.40, Monday 11 May 2020 (streak: 7 weeks)
995 words, 5 links
Tagged: hooray-for-qr-codes -
How about hyperlocal pandemic forecasting
19.39, Tuesday 12 May 2020 (streak: 7 weeks)
867 words, 8 links
Has 1 follow-up post
Tagged: speculative-in-2020, weather -
Rethinking conference talks for video calls
19.27, Friday 15 May 2020 (streak: 7 weeks)
1,346 words, 1 link
Has 4 follow-up posts
Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2020 -
Gross National Diversity
19.30, Tuesday 19 May 2020 (streak: 8 weeks)
766 words, 4 links
Has 1 follow-up post -
Rambling thoughts about cyborgs and emotions
20.00, Wednesday 20 May 2020 (streak: 8 weeks)
798 words, 9 links
Has 2 follow-up posts
Tagged: esoteric-supersenses, space -
A month long conference is a neat concept
14.35, Sunday 24 May 2020 (streak: 8 weeks)
479 words, 4 links
Has 3 follow-up posts
Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2020 -
How I would put voice control in everything
20.18, Tuesday 26 May 2020 (streak: 9 weeks)
1,064 words, 8 links
Has 9 follow-up posts
Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2020, speculative-in-2020, yes-to-interoperability -
Grocery shopping, localism, and last mile delivery
19.55, Thursday 28 May 2020 (streak: 9 weeks)
1,276 words, 9 links
Has 4 follow-up posts
Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2020, food-and-so-on -
Filtered for musical cyborgs
19.27, Friday 29 May 2020 (streak: 9 weeks)
653 words, 7 links
Has 3 follow-up posts
Tagged: filtered-for, sound-and-music -
Experiments with projectors and video calls
08.16, Thursday 4 Jun 2020 (streak: 10 weeks)
752 words, 7 links
Has 2 follow-up posts
Tagged: speculative-in-2020 -
Singing bridges
19.53, Monday 8 Jun 2020 (streak: 11 weeks)
583 words, 8 links
Has 1 follow-up post
Tagged: sound-and-music -
From the other side of the bridge
14.50, Friday 12 Jun 2020 (streak: 11 weeks)
452 words, 6 links
Has 3 follow-up posts
Tagged: inner-and-outer-realities, taking-magic-seriously -
Filtered for hallway tracks and spreadsheet parties
13.29, Monday 15 Jun 2020 (streak: 12 weeks)
1,517 words, 12 links
Has 4 follow-up posts
Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2020, 5-most-popular-in-2020, filtered-for -
Quotebacks and hypertexts
08.54, Tuesday 16 Jun 2020 (streak: 12 weeks)
1,286 words, 14 links
Has 1 follow-up post -
Personal software vs factory-produced software
20.46, Thursday 18 Jun 2020 (streak: 12 weeks)
455 words, 4 links
Has 1 follow-up post -
Early web videos, eye contact, and anti-attention
20.43, Monday 22 Jun 2020 (streak: 13 weeks)
651 words, 8 links
Has 2 follow-up posts -
3 books from Chris Noessel
18.55, Tuesday 23 Jun 2020 (streak: 13 weeks)
668 words, 7 links
Tagged: 3-books -
What are the problems with Big Tech?
21.50, Monday 29 Jun 2020 (streak: 14 weeks)
1,346 words, 6 links
Has 1 follow-up post
Tagged: political-fantasies -
Space, weather, and other novel battlegrounds
21.12, Tuesday 30 Jun 2020 (streak: 14 weeks)
763 words, 8 links
Has 4 follow-up posts
Tagged: space, weather -
Idle thoughts about how we replace keyboards
20.04, Friday 3 Jul 2020 (streak: 14 weeks)
910 words, 7 links
Has 2 follow-up posts -
3 books from Tom Stafford
17.19, Wednesday 8 Jul 2020 (streak: 15 weeks)
663 words, 10 links
Tagged: 3-books -
Settling the Sun
18.55, Friday 10 Jul 2020 (streak: 15 weeks)
352 words, 3 links
Has 1 follow-up post
Tagged: space -
Secret cyborgs and an old story
19.21, Monday 13 Jul 2020 (streak: 16 weeks)
710 words, 3 links
Has 1 follow-up post
Tagged: food-and-so-on -
Do humans have a north sense?
20.14, Tuesday 14 Jul 2020 (streak: 16 weeks)
439 words, 5 links
Has 4 follow-up posts
Tagged: esoteric-supersenses -
On speaking with dolphins
17.32, Monday 20 Jul 2020 (streak: 17 weeks)
702 words, 7 links
Has 4 follow-up posts
Tagged: dolphins -
Sales pipelines, consultancy, and navigating the lockdown
19.58, Wednesday 22 Jul 2020 (streak: 17 weeks)
1,084 words, 4 links -
Spatial interfaces for conversations and software
18.37, Thursday 23 Jul 2020 (streak: 17 weeks)
1,170 words, 15 links
Has 2 follow-up posts -
How would I improve RSS? Three ideas
19.40, Wednesday 29 Jul 2020 (streak: 18 weeks)
1,702 words, 7 links
Has 3 follow-up posts
Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2020 -
More experiments with video calls, and what slides are for
21.20, Friday 31 Jul 2020 (streak: 18 weeks)
1,376 words, 11 links
Has 1 follow-up post -
A short ballet piece from Romeo and Juliet
19.28, Tuesday 4 Aug 2020 (streak: 19 weeks)
465 words, 1 link
Tagged: sound-and-music -
The serendipity machine, and what is Job Garden anyway?
19.24, Wednesday 5 Aug 2020 (streak: 19 weeks)
555 words, 7 links
Has 2 follow-up posts
Tagged: job-garden -
Rainbow spacecraft and how humanity might end
19.32, Thursday 6 Aug 2020 (streak: 19 weeks)
1,005 words, 5 links
Has 3 follow-up posts
Tagged: eschatology, space -
If I got made king of web browsers, here’s what I’d do
13.41, Friday 7 Aug 2020 (streak: 19 weeks)
1,074 words, 7 links -
The holy founding text of The Church of the Next Word, as revealed to Frank Lantz
21.12, Monday 10 Aug 2020 (streak: 20 weeks)
1,084 words, 7 links
Has 3 follow-up posts
Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2020, 5-most-popular-in-2020, dowsing-the-collective-unconscious, gpt-3 -
Like, just a post complaining that screens should be better
19.45, Tuesday 11 Aug 2020 (streak: 20 weeks)
386 words, 4 links
Has 2 follow-up posts
Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2020, speculative-in-2020 -
Introducing aboutfeeds.com, a Getting Started guide for web feeds and RSS
14.27, Wednesday 12 Aug 2020 (streak: 20 weeks)
552 words, 5 links
Has 2 follow-up posts
Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2020 -
Filtered for small groups
20.16, Tuesday 18 Aug 2020 (streak: 21 weeks)
823 words, 6 links
Has 3 follow-up posts
Tagged: filtered-for, multiplayer -
We already have mirror pixels and camera pixels
20.39, Wednesday 19 Aug 2020 (streak: 21 weeks)
462 words, 8 links -
Lockdown and discovering new micro-hedonisms
17.52, Thursday 20 Aug 2020 (streak: 21 weeks)
633 words, 2 links
Has 1 follow-up post -
What if A.I. gets 100x better in a matter of months?
15.48, Monday 24 Aug 2020 (streak: 22 weeks)
405 words, 4 links
Has 5 follow-up posts
Tagged: eschatology, gpt-3 -
Revisiting Adaptive Design, a lost design movement
15.22, Wednesday 26 Aug 2020 (streak: 22 weeks)
1,505 words, 17 links
Has 5 follow-up posts
Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2020 -
Asimov’s Foundation, and what’s unique about science fiction
12.07, Thursday 27 Aug 2020 (streak: 22 weeks)
1,378 words, 6 links
Has 1 follow-up post
Tagged: space -
Risk: micromorts, microCOVIDs, and skydiving
12.42, Tuesday 1 Sep 2020 (streak: 23 weeks)
977 words, 10 links
Has 2 follow-up posts
Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2020, 5-most-popular-in-2020 -
Augmented reality should use magic mirrors, not glasses
15.17, Wednesday 2 Sep 2020 (streak: 23 weeks)
1,069 words, 9 links
Tagged: taking-magic-seriously, weather -
GPT-3 is an idea machine
13.22, Friday 4 Sep 2020 (streak: 23 weeks)
1,109 words, 2 links
Has 9 follow-up posts
Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2020, dowsing-the-collective-unconscious, gpt-3 -
Naming algorithms and the ghosts in Pac-Man
22.04, Monday 7 Sep 2020 (streak: 24 weeks)
454 words, 4 links
Has 3 follow-up posts
Tagged: anthropomorphise-all-hyperobjects, ghosts -
Coffee from ice cream vans, and other remote working perks
17.13, Tuesday 8 Sep 2020 (streak: 24 weeks)
598 words, 4 links
Has 1 follow-up post
Tagged: food-and-so-on, speculative-in-2020 -
Countdown clocks, zines, and an imagined website from 2001
19.54, Wednesday 9 Sep 2020 (streak: 24 weeks)
1,093 words, 11 links
Has 1 follow-up post -
15 rules for blogging, and my current streak
18.07, Thursday 10 Sep 2020 (streak: 24 weeks)
493 words, 2 links
Has 5 follow-up posts
Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2020, meta, writing-about-writing -
ID’ing movies by fingerprinting the breath for isoprene
16.36, Tuesday 15 Sep 2020 (streak: 25 weeks)
558 words, 6 links
Has 1 follow-up post
Tagged: speculative-in-2020 -
Fanboost and other magical manifestations of the will
19.38, Wednesday 16 Sep 2020 (streak: 25 weeks)
624 words, 6 links
Has 2 follow-up posts
Tagged: taking-magic-seriously -
Hints towards a non-extractive economy
18.48, Friday 18 Sep 2020 (streak: 25 weeks)
499 words, 5 links
Has 1 follow-up post -
The skill stays in your hands
14.53, Tuesday 22 Sep 2020 (streak: 26 weeks)
613 words, 3 links
Tagged: functional-divination -
Mars problems vs Venus problems
14.45, Wednesday 23 Sep 2020 (streak: 26 weeks)
825 words, 7 links
Has 3 follow-up posts
Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2020, 5-most-popular-in-2020, space -
Unoffice Hours: what it is and how to book a call
14.35, Thursday 24 Sep 2020 (streak: 26 weeks)
609 words, 7 links
Has 4 follow-up posts -
Three feelings that I don’t have words for
20.53, Tuesday 29 Sep 2020 (streak: 27 weeks)
725 words, 2 links
Has 2 follow-up posts -
A problem with my wifi, and wide causal systems
12.36, Friday 2 Oct 2020 (streak: 27 weeks)
712 words, 4 links
Tagged: complexity -
Ancient magicians as innovation consultants. Also birds
19.51, Monday 5 Oct 2020 (streak: 28 weeks)
758 words, 5 links
Has 2 follow-up posts
Tagged: functional-divination, speculative-in-2020, taking-magic-seriously, the-ancient-world-is-now, weather -
Dragonfly drones and orthogonal invention
21.35, Wednesday 7 Oct 2020 (streak: 28 weeks)
898 words, 4 links
Has 3 follow-up posts
Tagged: weather -
Social software needs to be designed with social sidetone
19.47, Thursday 8 Oct 2020 (streak: 28 weeks)
680 words, 5 links
Tagged: interfaces-for-ambient-awareness -
Various first words
20.56, Monday 12 Oct 2020 (streak: 29 weeks)
217 words, 8 links
Has 1 follow-up post
Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2020, 5-most-popular-in-2020 -
Video calling is terrible and we need interop
17.59, Wednesday 14 Oct 2020 (streak: 29 weeks)
664 words, 3 links
Has 3 follow-up posts
Tagged: multiplayer, yes-to-interoperability -
An overly complex hack for finding books on cluttered shelves
20.02, Thursday 15 Oct 2020 (streak: 29 weeks)
573 words, 2 links
Has 1 follow-up post
Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2020, writing-about-writing -
Pay-per-use physics models for virtual fashion
19.46, Wednesday 21 Oct 2020 (streak: 30 weeks)
993 words, 3 links
Has 2 follow-up posts
Tagged: speculative-in-2020 -
An Ariston TV spot from the early 1990s
19.36, Friday 23 Oct 2020 (streak: 30 weeks)
297 words, 6 links -
Perhaps society needs both me-money and we-money
17.56, Monday 26 Oct 2020 (streak: 31 weeks)
1,119 words, 1 link
Tagged: company-scrip, speculative-in-2020 -
A fantasy of a glitch in the universe
18.34, Tuesday 27 Oct 2020 (streak: 31 weeks)
698 words, 7 links
Has 4 follow-up posts -
Xenia: the ancient Greek norm of guest-friendship
19.20, Monday 2 Nov 2020 (streak: 32 weeks)
381 words, 1 link -
What it’s like to vote in the UK
18.51, Tuesday 3 Nov 2020 (streak: 32 weeks)
928 words, 4 links -
My epiphany at the dentist and how I carried it back to reality
18.39, Thursday 5 Nov 2020 (streak: 32 weeks)
1,503 words, 1 link
Has 3 follow-up posts -
Haunted radio
17.30, Monday 9 Nov 2020 (streak: 33 weeks)
723 words, 6 links
Has 1 follow-up post
Tagged: ghosts -
Machine English and why I bake bread for 49 minutes
17.49, Tuesday 10 Nov 2020 (streak: 33 weeks)
558 words, 6 links
Tagged: ageography -
The Fall of Rome (just the poem)
20.59, Thursday 12 Nov 2020 (streak: 33 weeks)
163 words, no links
Tagged: poetry -
Self-driving corporations
20.56, Tuesday 17 Nov 2020 (streak: 34 weeks)
1,252 words, 5 links
Has 2 follow-up posts
Tagged: speculative-in-2020 -
How to collaborate with AIs
18.40, Thursday 19 Nov 2020 (streak: 34 weeks)
722 words, 5 links
Has 2 follow-up posts
Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2020, gpt-3, writing-about-writing -
Multiplayer docs, webcam fashion, noisy icons: three ideas
19.50, Friday 20 Nov 2020 (streak: 34 weeks)
1,397 words, 14 links
Has 4 follow-up posts
Tagged: multiplayer -
Some thoughts on the Chorleywood bread process
22.08, Monday 23 Nov 2020 (streak: 35 weeks)
1,012 words, 7 links
Has 1 follow-up post
Tagged: food-and-so-on, yeast -
Faster than real-time simulation, a new hammer
19.32, Thursday 26 Nov 2020 (streak: 35 weeks)
561 words, 2 links
Has 3 follow-up posts -
Who owns your synthetic self?
17.13, Friday 27 Nov 2020 (streak: 35 weeks)
664 words, 12 links -
New horizons for office furniture
18.49, Monday 30 Nov 2020 (streak: 36 weeks)
809 words, 14 links
Has 2 follow-up posts
Tagged: computing-history, speculative-in-2020 -
Extrapolation and the Windows 95 startup sound
19.35, Wednesday 2 Dec 2020 (streak: 36 weeks)
530 words, 9 links
Has 2 follow-up posts
Tagged: extrapolation, gpt-3, sound-and-music -
Could software-enabled co-ops help workers push back on Big Tech?
16.36, Friday 4 Dec 2020 (streak: 36 weeks)
760 words, 7 links
Has 5 follow-up posts -
Modern consensus ghosts such as the Monkey Man and the Gatwick Drone
20.47, Tuesday 8 Dec 2020 (streak: 37 weeks)
1,780 words, 9 links
Has 2 follow-up posts
Tagged: dowsing-the-collective-unconscious, ghosts, speculative-in-2020 -
The hard work of imagining, ThingsCon 2020
16.00, Friday 11 Dec 2020 (streak: 37 weeks)
2,731 words, 17 links
Has 4 follow-up posts -
Artificial meteor showers and the function of omens
19.34, Tuesday 15 Dec 2020 (streak: 38 weeks)
508 words, 6 links
Has 2 follow-up posts
Tagged: comets, functional-divination, space, taking-magic-seriously, the-ancient-world-is-now -
We live in a semiotarchy
19.46, Wednesday 16 Dec 2020 (streak: 38 weeks)
288 words, 1 link
Has 1 follow-up post -
My most popular posts in 2020 and other lists
10.56, Thursday 17 Dec 2020 (streak: 38 weeks)
242 words, 14 links
Has 3 follow-up posts
Tagged: meta -
Minecraft is haunted and Twitter too
10.08, Tuesday 22 Dec 2020 (streak: 39 weeks)
357 words, 2 links
Tagged: ghosts -
Chemicals to help you write PowerPoint and other cognitive fantasies
14.55, Wednesday 23 Dec 2020 (streak: 39 weeks)
695 words, 8 links
Has 1 follow-up post
Tagged: speculative-in-2020 -
What I’ve been reading in 2020
13.24, Monday 28 Dec 2020 (streak: 40 weeks)
1,010 words, 12 links
Has 4 follow-up posts
Tagged: reading-roundup -
2021 is when lockdown will stop mattering
12.06, Tuesday 29 Dec 2020 (streak: 40 weeks)
609 words, 4 links
Has 1 follow-up post -
Air travel sucks so here’s an alternative future
15.32, Thursday 31 Dec 2020 (streak: 40 weeks)
1,279 words, 2 links
Tagged: speculative-in-2020