Month: February 2025
-
2024: Predict, create, distribute (repeat)
A year ago this month, Apple again did what it does best: predicting, creating and distributing the Future. And we like to think we’ve been helping again too. As mentioned previously, Apple is particularly good at making an already-here, but very-unevenly-distributed Future more affordable and accessible for the rest of us. To quote Steve Jobs…
Written by
-
“The best way to predict the future is to create it”
A big reason that Gordon Moore was so accurately able to predict the future was that he was in the process of creating it, with his work at Intel. Same with William Gibson and his work with e-books and science fiction in general. Another futurist once said “The best way to predict the future is…
Written by
-
More on Moore
The previous post on the Future of the Connectome alluded to how Moore’s Law would likely make the seemingly impossible mapping of the human brain’s 100 trillion synapses possible in the somewhat-but-not-too-distant Future. In much the same way that it made the mapping of the 6 billion DNA letters of the human genome possible in…
Written by
-
William Gibson: Death to Print
William Gibson will play more than just an inspirational role for this blog. He will also be one of the threads that ties the Past, Present and Future together in it. To make this first long story as short as possible: • Between 1984 and 1988, Gibson authored his futuristic Neuromancer trilogy, popularizing the term…
Written by