The Coming Coder Wars
The Coming Coder Wars In the late 1980s, I spent some time as a mainframe programmer at IBM. Conversations around the water cooler often had to do with some of the cryptic code written 2-3 decades earlier, buried deep within the system, that was incomprehensible to...When Death Becomes Optional
When Death Becomes Optional The year is 2032. You have just celebrated your 80th birthday and you have some tough decisions ahead. You can either keep repairing your current body or move into a new one. The growing of “blank” bodies has become all the rage, and by...
Future Libraries and 17 Forms of Information Replacing Books
Future Libraries and 17 Forms of Information Replacing Books Question: As physical books go away, and computers and smart devices take their place, at what point does a library stop being a library, and start becoming something else? Somewhere in the middle of this...
The 5-Year Pipeline
The 5-Year Pipeline Five years ago was the beginning of 2007. George Bush was President, Arnold Schwarzenegger was governor of California, Barack Obama wasn’t very well known, and Saddam Hussein had just been executed in Iraq. Five years ago the Dow Jones was on a...