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by bpiche 6y ago
Cyberpunk or postcyberpunk if I you ask me
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by bpiche 6y ago
Gibson's excellent collection of short stories, 'Burning Chrome', contains a story called 'The Gernsback Continuum' which is very explicitly a retrofuturist work, I think. Maybe one of the best! In the first few par
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by bpiche 6y ago
Location: Millbrae, CA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: ML/NLP, text analysis, speech recognition, chatbots, conversational AI, voice assistants, media monitoring, business intelligence, a little computer vision; Enter
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by bpiche 6y ago
Do it. You'll be ok.
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by bpiche 7y ago
Please keep it up. That book is a treasure. Do you have a draft copy?
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by bpiche 7y ago
Yes, it looks like the author had a follow up column to Illich's essay. That's very interesting. Thanks for sharing this. I attended the Whole Earth 50th anniversary at Fort Mason a couple years ago, and noticed that Illich's
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by bpiche 7y ago
Upvoted for Ivan Illich. He was on the cover of a 1993 issue of the Coevolution Quarterly and was a minor celebrity for a while. One of the deepest thinkers we've ever had.
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by bpiche 7y ago
Crescent City?
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by bpiche 7y ago
I see u
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by bpiche 8y ago
Extremely succinct way of putting it, there. That's David Foster Wallace's conclusion in E Pluribus Unam too.
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by bpiche 8y ago
Yeah, it's hard to sell this to anyone except c-levels with the most discretionary of budgets, but it's very important work. FWIW it's nice to find someone else who's heard of this. A few years ago Bruce Sterling was cal
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by bpiche 8y ago
Sounds kinda like this strategic forecasting group cofounded by Steward Brand, GBN had many awesome sci fi and cyberpunk authors in its retinue until 2013, both Gibson and Sterling if I recall but it's all described in the book The Art
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by bpiche 8y ago
Sometimes these science fiction counterparts are called 'diagetic prototypes' or 'design fictions'. Has been a favorite topic of Mr Bruce Sterling's for a while now https://www.wired.com/2011/02
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by bpiche 8y ago
my man ivan illich strongly agreed with you in his 'disabling professions', which you may enjoy. he generally argued that many of our needs are manufactured by various institutionalized forms of care (healthcare, education, transp
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by bpiche 9y ago
You mention Gibson's original vision of cyberspace (maybe you mean a decker's hallucinatory tiaras), and also his locative art theme in one of the Blue Ant books - but I wonder if VR is closer to the AR goggles in Virtual Light. I
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by bpiche 9y ago
Full disclosure, @babak_khan is my boss and I work here: I honestly love this place and I've worked in enough code shops to know the difference. We're all doing our best work here, the office locations are great, and the organizat
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by bpiche 12y ago
this is not simply a problem of 'at least two' uber drivers having been charged with raping passengers since sunday, but the fact that it is symptomatic of a pattern of flouting laws in boston (and other areas certainly). here in
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by bpiche 12y ago
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/12/16/least-two-women-...
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by bpiche 12y ago
It's not the first incident, it's the fourth incident from ride sharing companies in Boston this month, and the Commonwealth has already confirmed that two of them were from Uber
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Uber Driver Accused of Raping Passenger in Boston(time.com)
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by bpiche 13y ago
http://chezjj.com/ I stayed there for about a week last year during a round of interviews in the area. The host is very experienced in the hacker hostel tradition, and it's a great deal. In fact, while I was staying th