Posts in: LongForm

If you listen to the news, it’s as if;

Longnow hadn’t existed for the past twenty years.

Jeff Bezos woke up yesterday and thought what we need is a 10,000 year clock.

The Bezos investment happened this week.

In fairness, Bezos credits people like Danny Hillis and Zander Rose … I just wish the media would - and get the story right.

No relation to Edgar Rice … it isn’t even spelt the same!

Olive Oil directly from the fields.

For years I have listened to people as they gather around the ‘internet campfire’ discussing what/who makes the best hardware, software, service.

But is it really about the best hardware or software …

Here

  • The right to be informed
  • The right of access
  • The right to rectification
  • The right to erasure
  • The right to restrict processing
  • The right to data portability
  • The right to object

At least according to GDPR

Read all about him on Wikipedia or - pop over to his web site

I had two of his books a long time ago. Long gone / misplaced / lost. But, if you are interested in the music of the 60s and 70s, the …

OK …

John Lennon’s words came to my mind this morning driving on the 101 to a meeting.

Apparently Starbucks thought it was my birthday today ( it isn’t .. but that’s a different story). To celebrate the …

Not my words … in fact, not sure whose they are … if I find out, I will come back and correctly attribute … until then …

Big data and machine learning (is) all oriented to one type of intelligence or a western view of intelligence. Mimic the brain, no heart. Instinct defined via algorithm. Maybe we struggle against this because deep inside we know its profoundly dysfunctional.