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    • Becoming Digital

    Friday, September 5th, 2008

    Whether we want to peek at Brad and Angelina’s twins or carbon date Eva de Naharon, we can do so via digital technology. Nicholas Negroponte puts it quite simply: Everything that can be stored as bits will be stored as bits. Lack of resources, planning and understanding mean that in many parts of the developing world, most local knowledge can’t or won’t survive the transition.

    MEME: Bitsharks

    Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

    I’m going to start blaming random network- and computer-related problems on Bitsharks. Get all my customers used to the idea of these predatory bots cruising the network, dining on people’s transmissions.
    USER: “Why didn’t my email go through?”
    ME: “Did you receive a failure message?”
    USER: “No.”
    ME: “Uhhh, you didn’t send it alone, did you?”
    USER: “What do [...]