People acquire property in order to provide prosperity for posterity.

POSTERITY, property, PROSPERITY

Been thinking a lot about various metaphors for what I do here on the web. Blogging for me has become kind of like fishing or trapping. You throw some bait into the water and wait to see if anybody swims by and takes it. I guess you could look at all different kinds of metrics […]

In his book Accelerando, sci-fi author Charles Stross used the term “weakly godlike intelligences” to refer - I think - to some kind of futuristic AI. Doing some keyword genetics (keyword forensics?) on that phrase has brought me to a web page which would have me believe that the term “godlike intelligences” may have come […]

I would love to see some kind of online application which allows you to trace sort of the evolution of words and their usage over the internet. I don’t know exactly what I mean by that, but maybe somebody reading this does and can link me to a good source.

My site currently has 6,247 posts and 24,045 comments. For some time now, I’ve been eagerly awaiting the day when the next quantum leap is made in how we use computers and how information is organized and retrieved. It’s the sort of thing which, as a heavy internet user, writer and developer for over ten […]