The New York Times is slowly waking to the coming Singularity. Singularity U is slowly putting its first class schedule together. And there is a new Singularity documentary out: It’s the Summer of Singularity. So. Trip. This.
Good stuff: Happy rainy Friday on (a working) vacation.
Well worth a June screening:
I’m in Vermont this week, smelling the flowers. And blog brethren Rob Horning understands why long, leisurely Tuesday lunches under late spring lilac bushes isn’t always easy at the dawn of the Information Age: I have been on a road trip to Idaho for the past week or so, which is why there have been [...]
No better example of the sacrifice soldiers and their families are sometimes called upon to make. And why. Happy Memorial Day, everyone.
Or, as one card carrying member of Washington’s old guard said to me this morning, “What a horse’s ass that guy is.” Which is interesting because “card carrying member’s of Washington’s old guard ” once had a pretty high opinion of public servant Dick Cheney. Not anymore. America doesn’t torture. Period. We’re better than that. [...]
You gotta love the modern web. Well, you gotta love it if you love sunshine: