Tag Archives: Future

How To Be Remembered As A Famous Blogger in 3009

By Kurt | Published: July 19, 2009
If all of the current web survives the next thousand years, it is likely that many or most of today’s popular bloggers will also be remembered and perhaps heralded in 3009. If today’s data archives are preserved and readable in the distant future, it is also possible that some lesser known bloggers might be [...]
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The Charming Nature Of Human Writing

By Kurt | Published: July 1, 2009
I was reading comments made to items I had posted in my Facebook stream and enjoyed seeing spelling and grammatical errors in some of the comments. It is not uncommon for me to make such errors, as well. I was surprised to experience such appreciation of these mistakes since I am somewhat of [...]
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On This Day In History: 1984 in 1949

By Kurt | Published: June 8, 2009
On this day in history: June 8, 1949 on 12seconds.tv George Orwell’s dystopian novel, one to stand alongside Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World as a towering work of futuristic pessimism, posits a grim society where the government is all powerful and all knowing and the individual spirit has been effectively extinguished. Big Brother, a seemingly benevolent [...]
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Perspective Based Synthetic Invisibility

By Kurt | Published: May 7, 2009
Vanishing car revealed – Make Photo from Telegraph UK via Make “I was experimenting with the whole concept of illusion but needed something a bit more physical to make a real impact…People have been stopping in the street to look and coming up and almost bumping into it, so it’s had the desired effect.” . . . Sara is [...]
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